EU Copyright..

Florian Weimer Weimer at CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Sat May 4 11:43:17 UTC 2002


ams at kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

> * RIBNITZ Robert writes:
>> More precisely, I am unclear about the terms Free Software and OPen
>> Source Software. Do you know of any Software that is both open
>> source, and non-free, or that is free, but not Open Source?
>
> All Free Software is Open Source Software.

Not true.  Using the distribution restriction option in section 8 of
the GPL is not compatible with the Open Source Definition, section 5.

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