What's the fucking difference between Free Software

>>59951561
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

*autistic screeching*

>Here's your burger. Eat it however you want.

>Here's a bun, patty, sliced veg and some condiments. Eat them however you want.

>>59951561
You have the freedom, to read and modify free software, but open source does not guaranty the freedom of modification.

Free Software implies Open Source, but not the other way around.

Open Source software may have license limitations on how you can use or distribute it.

>>59951561
Very little.

The FSF's free software definition and the OSI's open source definition have pretty much the same criteria. And so the FSF and OSI license lists have a lot of overlap, differing only where the criteria were interpreted differently. A few uncommon licenses are approved by one organization and not the other, but in terms of actual use by software projects, almost every free software project is open source and almost every open source software project is free.

>>59951577
I was misled by this article for a while. It leaves out any mention of the OSI or the open source definition. It does accurately portray the different motivations behind the two terms though.
>>59953508
open-source-misses-the-point leads one to believe this, but in fact, open source licenses must give the freedom to modify and distribute modified versions.

>>59954532
Neither implies the other.

Free Software Definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
FSF-approved licenses: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/definition
OSI-approved licenses: https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
Comparison of licenses, including Debian and Fedora approval too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses