Acrobat Reader for Linux removed

Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by icebraining on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:44PM (#8093387)

every app being open source (or rather Free Software, which is usually the case)

Virtually every open source application is also Free Software, and vice-versa. The most common licenses (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc) fit both definitions.

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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by ekianjo on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:16AM (#8095448)

I have seen "Open Source" licenses which do not permit modification nor re-distribution. It's certainly not equivalent to the principle of Free Software.

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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by icebraining on Monday July 28, 2014 @03:59AM (#8095639)

Ah, yes, there are "open source" licenses that don't follow the Open Source Initiative's definition. Still, Linux distributions tend to abide by it, as far as I know.

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