On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: >> Free Software movement believes that all software should be free >> (freedom). Open Source movement aims for business acceptably,which >> means that free and proprietary software should coexist. So they're >> ideologically different movements. >> >> >> > Thats why the word Libre software was coined to remove any ambiguity. >
No, Libre is used when there is need to clarify that it is free as in freedom. Which means that it is still Free software. Which is different from Open Source. A practical difference is this: Free Software: GPL licenses only. Hence, freedom and rights of the user and developer are protected Open Source Software: BSD, MIT, GPL, Creative Commons, etc. Basically licenses under which source code reuse and redistribution is allowed, regardless of whether the rights are passed on/retained or not. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
