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Re: Irony

From: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>
To: prj at po dot cwru dot edu
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 12:40:36 +0100
Subject: Re: Irony
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure (quatramaran)
References: <E18Hmge-0002BD-00@fencepost.gnu.org><8apUjub1w-B@khms.westfalen.de>

In article <m3ptsnv1cr.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> you write:
>kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) wrote:
>> Frankly, I've never been able to identify a difference between "free
>> software" as used by rms and "Open Source" as used by esr. They're
>> quite obviously exactly the same thing.
>
>AIUI, there is a difference - not in the software, or in the licenses,
>but in the reasons for using them (i.e., in the "movements").  

There is a difference.

Some free licences do not conform to what RMS would want.
The BSD licence, for one.
X11's MIT licence for another.

Just think about it.

Maybe there's more to it than ESR and RMS would want you to believe.

References:
- Irony
  - From: Richard Stallman
- Re: Irony
  - From: Kai Henningsen
- Re: Irony
  - From: Paul Jarc

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