HughesMann

Free Software Foundation

Wikipedia generally follows the common usage, not what the Free Software Foundation would like us to write. We write 'Linux' and not 'GNU/Linux', and so on. MrOllie (talk) 18:22, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

'Open Source' commonly refers to software using permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses, 'GPLed' software is called free-software across many articles. The term 'free and open-source' is more commonly used to address groups of both GPL software and permissively licensed software. Open source and free software are two different visions with different goals, both overlooked by different organisations, the OSI and FSF respectively. Perhaps it was my mistake to say that it's what the FSF 'would like us to write', the fact is that 'free' and 'open source', while similar are two different categories of software (when it comes to licensing/goals) and the distinction arose from historical circumstances. If you ever change your mind I would like to restore my edits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages

HughesMann (talk) 14:27, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Free and open-source

I liked your edit to "Free and open-source software" to reflect that this article covers both free software and open-source software. However, I disagree with your edits to Pandoc and Links: "Open source" does not mean "permissively licensed", and it is very common for software to be both "free" and "open-source". This is how the terms are commonly used, see Richard Stallmann's essay Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software:

In practice, open source stands for criteria a little looser than those of free software. As far as we know, all existing released free software source code would qualify as open source. Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions. [...] Another misunderstanding of “open source” is the idea that it means “not using the GNU GPL.” This tends to accompany another misunderstanding that “free software” means “GPL-covered software.” These are both mistaken, since the GNU GPL qualifies as an open source license and most of the open source licenses qualify as free software licenses.

You will often find a Wikipedia article about a particular piece of free software mentioning "free and open-source" in the first sentence. This is encouraged by the WP:FLOSS taskforce. There is no need to change this wording in hundreds of articles, but if you do, you will probably annoy some Wikipedians. Dexxor (talk) 08:01, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

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