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On Tuesday 20 February 2007 06:27 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves cobbled together some glyphs to say:
On 19-Feb-07, at 9:20 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Frankly, I think most people will be hard put to come up withconcrete examples of software that is OSS but not FS or that is FS but not OSS.
Any takers?isnt the BSD license OSS but not FS - as there is no bar against taking it proprietory?
BSD is Free Software. Having no bar is not a restriction. It's an extra Freedom. One can easily take BSD licensed code and make it proprietary / GPL. You need to understand that the Free Software definition has got nothing to do with the GNU GPL. The BSD license provides the four necessary freedoms and thus is Free Software, similar to Public Domain software.
Regards, BG
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