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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, Mats Lidell <mats.lidell@cag.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:36:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3r8mh7m.fsf@floss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ltwbzpl.fsf@bernoul.li> (Jonas Bernoulli's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:52:38 +0200")

Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>Github actively encourages users to specify the license.  (Yes, they
>suggest free software as well as open source licenses.)

There's a difference?

If you're thinking that "free software" == "copyleft" and "open source" == "non-copyleft", that's actually not the case.  For example, the GPL is both a free software and an open source license, and the same is true of (say) the MIT license.

This FAQ item at the OSI explains this in more detail: https://opensource.org/faq#free-software.  (I believe that FAQ entry explains it in such a way that the FSF would agree with the facts & history as presented there, although perhaps not with the philosophical equivalence implied.)

I completely agree with you that GitHub now actively encourages people to apply a free software license when publishing their code.  GitHub does this both via UI nudges and via their public posts and comments on the topic (see https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/ for example).

-Karl



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-28 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-10 14:29 Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-12 12:49 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-13 12:23   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-14 19:44     ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-15 19:38       ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-16  1:55       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-16  2:20         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-16 15:41         ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-16 17:37           ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-16 22:17             ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-17 12:00             ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 12:00             ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 12:00             ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 21:23               ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-18 14:16                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-23 22:14                   ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-27 22:50                     ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-28 17:16                       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 12:19                         ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-29 19:09                           ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 19:54                             ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-29 22:49                             ` Ivan Andrus
2017-07-31  0:46                               ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-31 17:48                                 ` Achim Gratz
2017-08-08  1:02                                 ` Ivan Andrus
2017-07-31  0:51                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-01 21:46                       ` Mats Lidell
2017-08-02  1:54                         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-03 19:42                           ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-03 19:58                             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-28 10:52               ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-28 17:16                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-28 17:47                   ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-28 17:16                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 13:48                   ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-29 19:10                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 19:10                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-28 20:36                 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2017-07-29 19:07                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-31  0:49                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 11:59           ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-28 11:17             ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-29 14:54               ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-29 19:09                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 19:06               ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 19:06               ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-29 20:07                 ` Mats Lidell
2017-07-30  6:28                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-31 16:03                     ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-31 17:03                       ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-08-03  9:35                 ` Mats Lidell
2017-08-03 19:50                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 12:23   ` Richard Stallman

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