Say someone is creating a new software package and wants to distribute on their website and licenses it under a GPL license. When they describe it, they have the option of calling it either "free software" or "open source software" on their site or any other type of description of their software.

Many in the free software camp don't like the term "open source" yet at the same time when a project is licensed under the GPL is is both considered free software and open source.

To the new computer user who has heard the term "open source" more than "free software" for projects, how would someone label their software? Just by calling it free software many confuse the user and they may think it is something completely different than open source when it is the same. If the software was called open source, wouldn't it risk the free software crowd saying it "fits the wrong ideals" and refuse to use it?

So in a nutshell with any type of new GPL software, should it be labeled as both free software and open source or should one pick a side in labeling it?

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