Re:The Copyleft Bust Up
by Quentak on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:08AM
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Your last point is not quite correct. Closed source software could be doing anything but in order for you to verify what the software is doing you only need it to be open source - not free. Software can be non free but still open source.
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> Software can be non free but still open source.
This is a misconception I see a lot recently.
If you look at the Open Source Definition[0] you'll see that no, it's not sufficient that you can read the code. That would not be Open Source, it would be something else (Source Available?)
Practically speaking (given the linked definition), software that is Open Source is also Free Software.