UnitedLinux and "open source"

[John Cowan]

Russell Nelson scripsit:

> All software which is OSI Certified Open Source (that is, licensed
> under an approved license) is free software.

Disproof:

# /usr/bin/perl
# This program is licensed under the Artistic License.
# See http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php for terms
print "hello world\n";


The above program is not free software: see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense .
It is, however, Open Source software: see
http://opensource.org/licenses/ .

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