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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by arminiusreturns on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:30PM (#17819892)
It drives me nuts how much people talk about OSS when they need to at least mention the difference between FOSS and OSS. One more reason to stick to FOSS instead, as OSS proponents seem increasingly disingenuous.
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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by paulddraper on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:33PM (#17819914)
Help me understand. Which of the following are FOSS licenses and which are OSS licenses?

- Apache

- Apache + Common Clause

- BSD

- MIT

- GPLv2

- GPLv3

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by arminiusreturns on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:46PM (#17820010)
The FSF can explain it better than I can.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by paulddraper on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:46PM (#17821468)
> It drives me nuts how much people talk about OSS when they need to at least mention the difference between FOSS and OSS.

Maybe because like you they find it hard to explain?

According to your linked resources, it appears that everything except the Common Clause is FOSS.

So, basically everything I've ever seen is FOSS.

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by orangeshark on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:45PM (#17822927)
> According to your linked resources, it appears that everything except the Common Clause is FOSS.

> So, basically everything I've ever seen is FOSS.

Correct. Free Software just puts more attention to the freedom part of software.

GNU has a nice diagram and some category definitions for software at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by arminiusreturns on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:47AM (#17828221)
That's a little bit of a cheap shot, I just wanted to give you a good resource for digging into licenses.

Due to bsd and MIT allowing tivoization, those are the two non-foss licenses in that list in my opinion. I try to always use gplv3 when I can, but apache 2+ is acceptable to me.

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