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Freedom vs openness

Freedom vs openness

Posted Jul 8, 2005 1:32 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Freedom vs openness by Acrisius
Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)

Sorry, sharing source code is much older than "free software" or "open source", or even GPL. Sure, GPL gives a nice guarantee to the sharing, but that is all to many.


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