From: Amin Bandali <aminb@gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, rms@gnu.org,
john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Three cheers for Eli!
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 01:09:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87602z2l3x.fsf@aminb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fu23b1je.fsf@mbork.pl>
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> Out of curiosity: why aren't GNU projects open-source? I know RMS
> dislikes the term, but the source of GNU projects is available on the
> Internet, so technically they should count, no?
GNU projects are licensed under the GPL. Though GPL is an "OSI
approved" license, and so technically an "open source" license,
calling it that comes way short of conveying what it stands for.
Instead of attempting to explain it myself, I'll refer you to
this [0] article by RMS, called Why Open Source misses the point
of Free Software, which explains it much better than I could.
[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
-amin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-04 5:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-28 17:42 Three cheers for Eli! Alan Mackenzie
2018-05-28 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-28 19:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-05-28 20:29 ` John Wiegley
2018-05-30 10:29 ` Van L
2018-05-28 19:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-05-29 1:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-29 13:52 ` T.V Raman
2018-05-29 3:10 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-29 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-29 18:02 ` George Plymale II
2018-05-30 7:04 ` Tim Cross
2018-05-30 10:53 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-03 18:29 ` Jefferson Carpenter
2018-05-29 14:02 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-29 14:40 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2018-05-29 15:10 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2018-05-30 7:23 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-30 8:15 ` Boruch Baum
2018-05-30 10:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-05-31 15:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-05-31 22:57 ` John Yates
2018-06-01 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-01 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-01 14:02 ` John Yates
2018-06-02 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-02 12:30 ` John Yates
2018-06-03 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-03 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-04 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-04 4:47 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-04 5:09 ` Amin Bandali [this message]
2018-06-04 8:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-04 8:53 ` Van L
2018-06-04 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-07 17:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-07 18:00 ` João Távora
2018-06-11 3:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-11 13:50 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-12 0:35 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-12 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-15 17:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-15 17:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-15 18:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-15 18:10 ` João Távora
2018-06-04 23:29 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-07 17:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
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