From 1ae0306a3cf2ea27f60b2d205789994d260c2cce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Grothoff Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:29:45 +0200 Subject: add i18n FSFS --- .../blog/articles/en/free-open-overlap.html | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+) create mode 100644 talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/free-open-overlap.html (limited to 'talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/free-open-overlap.html') diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/free-open-overlap.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/free-open-overlap.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3a6c04 --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/free-open-overlap.html @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ + + +How Free Software and Open Source Relate as Categories of +Programs +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation + + +

How Free Software and Open Source Relate as Categories of Programs

+ +

Here's how free software and open source relate as categories of +programs:

+ +
+
+       /----------------------------------------------\
+      / |                                            | \
+     /  |                                            |  \
+    /   |                                            |   \
+        |                                            |
+        |       Source license is GNU *GPL, Apache,  |
+        |        original BSD, modified BSD,         |
+free    |        X11, expat, Python, MPL, etc.,      |
+        |        and executable is not tivoized      |   open source
+        |                                            | 
+        |                                            |
+    \   |                                            |
+     \  |                                            |
+      \ |                                            |   /
+       \----------------------------------------------  /
+        |     tivoized (tyrant) devices          | O | /
+        ----------------------------------------------/
+
+
+ +

Among all programs that are open source, only a minuscule fraction +are not free. If the bottom row were drawn to scale, its text would +have to be in a tiny font, perhaps too small to read.

+ +

Tivoized or “tyrant” devices contain nonfree +executables made from source code that is free. As of 2013, many +Android devices are tyrants, but some are not.

+ + + +

“O” stands for “other” and refers to +programs whose source is under licenses which are open source but not +free. Several such licenses were written around 2000, and they were +used to release some programs. It has been a long time since we heard +of software released under those licenses. We don't know whether they +are still used.

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Most nonfree licenses are not open source either.

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