Re: Acknowledge in paper

[Francesco Potortì]

>I tend to use the term 'open source' or 'free, open source' rather than
>just 'free'. 

'Free software' and 'Open source software' are equivalent as long as the
licence terms are concerned, but they are different on an ideal
background.  The authors of Octave prefer the former over the latter.

For a reason why:
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html>.

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