Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook

Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by arximboldi on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:01AM (#11984755)

Open source does imply rights to alter and redistribute:

https://opensource.org/licenses https://opensource.org/faq#free-software

The terms Free Software and Open Source are the same from a technical point of view, to the extent that they describe the same set of software. However, they are different in that they connote different views about the world---people saying free (or libre) software take a stance in that software should be free in order to build more just society, while people saying open source don't necessarily take a political stance with regard to software, and often see licensing only from a business point of view.

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Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by kstrauser on Monday June 27, 2016 @10:27AM (#11986324)

Here's an example of Open Source software that the FSF doesn't consider to be Free Software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement

There is a big overlap in the Free/Open Source Venn diagram but they are not the same thing.

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