What licenses are open source?

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Thu Nov 27 10:09:54 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 22:30, David Cornish wrote:
> > What licenses are open source? Free BSD, GPL ?
> 
> You can get a full list of licences that have been approved by the Open Source 
> Initiative as Open Source licences at:
> 
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
> 
> Note that an Open Source licence does not mean the same as a free software 
> licence:
> 
> http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html

And in particular, until Apple decided to correct it, APSL was _NOT_ a
Free Software license. Fortunately for the users of software licensed
under the new version, Apple decided Freedom was important enough to
correct the situation.

Hugs, Rui

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