Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Open Source Definition

The term “open source” software is used by some people to mean more or less the same category as free software. It is not exactly the same class of software: they accept some licenses that we consider too restrictive, and there are free software licenses they have not accepted. However, the differences in extension of the category are small: nearly all free software is open source, and nearly all open source software is free.

– Free Software Foundation
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

OpenSource Definition