Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
by bonzini on Saturday October 08, 2022 @07:39AM
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You are confusing free software and copyleft.
Not all free software is copyleft, and not all copyleft licenses are GPL compatible. But all free software is open source and vice versa. The four freedoms and the open source definition are intentionally equivalent.
Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
by Gigachad on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:49PM
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The OSI doesn’t define their own licences. They set out a bunch of rules about what open source means and then list which common licences fit those rules. Their rules are basically the same as the FSF essential freedoms list. Which is why GPL software falls under the OSI definition of open source.
It is not. If it is, you should explain that to every other expert and lawyer involved in litigating the differences, because they're operating under a delusion.
They are mutually inclusive licenses, because OSI licensed stuff can always be relicensed to GPL (or anything else, really), and because OSI says that GPL is also OSI (although I don't understand why.)
But they're different. You have to share your changes in GPL if you distribute them. That's it. That's the difference.