From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:45:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180923135947.GA29468@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537753892 1485 195.159.176.226 (24 Sep 2018 01:51:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 01:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ignoramus5311@NOSPAM.5311.invalid, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, wangziheng@outlook.com To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 24 03:51:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g4G23-0000In-Fq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2018 03:51:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4G49-0002MG-Ni for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:53:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36959) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4G3I-0001pG-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4Fwa-0001WO-B1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:45:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4FwL-0000ml-Ot; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:45:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g4FwL-0000Ua-HN; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:45:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180923135947.GA29468@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117985 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > This is difficult because "open source" can mean several things. > If you use the OSI's [1] definition of open source, then yes, > free software and open source are *technically* equivalent. The OSI's definition is the real definition. When the GNU Project talks about the term, that is what it means. Most people who use the term misunderstand its meaning, but, for the sake of keeping confusion down, let's not elevate their misunderstandings into legitimate "alternative meanings." See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html. The two terms are not quite "technically equivalent" -- the Open Watcom licenses has been approved as open source, and it is not a free license. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)