Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

"Philip Hunt" <address@hidden> writes:
> I write software and license it under the GPL. Is this "Open Source"
> or "Free Software"? The answer, of course, is that it is both.

They're practically the same thing alright, and there are ten or so other
terms too, but in a historical sense I'd say "free software" is a concept
and "open-source software" is just a name (or, at most, it's a marketing
campaign).

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