• buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    No, that’s free software, small f. Free Software, capital F, is software which respects your four fundamental software freedoms: to run, study, redistribute, and modify the software.

    Open Source is a capitalist trick to make the source code available without necessarily preserving those freedoms.

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      1 year ago

      Open-source preserves these freedoms. Source-available is the term for software that doesn’t respect user freedoms, but allows to access the source code.

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        1 year ago

        Indeed, most open source software is available under licenses like GPL, which enforces the preservation of those freedoms.