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Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman |
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Mon, 24 Sep 2018 06:24:37 +0200 |
* Richard Stallman:
> A license qualifies as "open source" only if the OSI rules on it.
> Probably there are some free programs that are not open source because
> they carry licenses that the OSI hasn't ruled on.
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> Whether there are free licenses that would be rejected as open source,
> I don't know.
OSI doesn't have a separate category for documentation licenses. The
GNU Free Documentation License, at least when used with invariant
sections, does not meet the requirements of the OSI definition
regarding derived works.