Re: Should distros take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?

[Valentino Giudice]

   >  Thus the software is "open source" but it is not free software.
   No, it is absolutely not.
   The founders of the open source movement, the Open Source Initiative,
   Debian (which also uses the term "open source"), many software
   communities and even several government agencies all mean the same
   thing by "open source" (with disagreements on licenses that are on the
   very boundary of that category) and software like that is absolutely
   *NOT* open source.
   "Open source" and "free software" are synonymous, or almost synonymous,
   when it comes to describing software categories or licenses. The open
   source movement and the free software movement, on the other hand, are
   two different movements with different ideas.
   The JSON license is not an open source license by any means.
   See:
   - [1]https://opensource.org/osd
   - [2]https://www.debian.org/social_contract
   - [3]https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
   - [4]https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
   - [5]http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html
   - [6]https://perens.com/2017/09/26/on-usage-of-the-phrase-open-source/
   The software is source available, not open source.

References

   1. https://opensource.org/osd
   2. https://www.debian.org/social_contract
   3. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
   4. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
   5. http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html
   6. https://perens.com/2017/09/26/on-usage-of-the-phrase-open-source/