Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >Github actively encourages users to specify the license.  (Yes, they
  > >suggest free software as well as open source licenses.)

  > There's a difference?

Yes, there is a practical difference.

  > If you're thinking that "free software" == "copyleft" and "open
  > source" == "non-copyleft", that's actually not the case.  For
  > example, the GPL is both a free software and an open source
  > license, and the same is true of (say) the MIT license.

That is correct.  However, there is a between open source licenses and
free licenses -- in a different area.  A few open source programs use
licenses which are too restrictive to qualify as free.

Fortunately the number of those programs seems to be small.
I think that over 99% of all open source source programs are free.

https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html gives
a full explanation.

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