From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Amin Bandali <aminb@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
kaushal.modi@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
john@yates-sheets.org
Subject: Re: Three cheers for Eli!
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:30:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efhnar8u.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87602z2l3x.fsf@aminb.org>
On 2018-06-04, at 07:09, Amin Bandali <aminb@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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.
I understand that, but Eli said
> There's no doubt open-source projects do
> exist, it's just that GNU projects are not among them.
I thought that GNU projects are rather in the intersection of "free
software" (in FSF sense) and open-source. That sentence confuses me.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-04 8:30 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
2018-06-04 8:30 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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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