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Its not wrong though (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Open source ≠ free software

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Open source inherently means you can compile the code locally, for free. You can’t necessarily redistribute it, depending on the license, but I’m not aware of a “you can compile this source for testing and code changes only but if you use it as your actual copy you are infringing” license.

I am very much open to correction here.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Open source inherently means you can compile the code locally,

Open Source means more than that. It is defined here:

https://opensource.org/osd/

If you use the phrase "open source" for things that don't meet those criteria, then without some clarifying context, you are misleading people.

for free.

Free Software is not the same as "software for free". It, too, has a specific meaning, defined here:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

When the person to whom you replied wrote "free software", they were not using it in some casual sense to mean free-of-charge.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Free as in free speech, not as in free beer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are all those free beer I always hear about?!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried installing homebrew?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know where the hops go, but where am I supposed to put the cereal ? I think I ruined my disc drive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Floppy drive. That’s why you malt it first.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Most free software is also open source and vice versa, but not all, the difference usually lies in the licence, this stackexchange answer gets it pretty well

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as "open source"), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.