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We're aware of the distinction between open source software and free/libre software. GitHub, the organization in question, is associated with the open source community The issue is where we stand, not where they stand. Someone wrote, GitHub has released more > open source code and tools than the gitorious community. GNOME is part of the free software movement, so we should say "free software", not "open source". If we judge organizations by the software development, we should judge by what free software they release, not what "open source" software they release. The developers of GitHub are free to think and say whatever they wish, but GNOME should not take them as a guide. and all its libraries are licensed under the non-copyleft 2-clause BSD license. That's a non-sequitur; it has nothing to do with the issue at hand. I've encountered many people who believe that lax permissive licenses are "open source" and that 'free software" refers to copyleft licenses only. However, neither of those is true. In fact, the lax permissive licenses are free and the GPL is free. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html. And both of them are open source, too. Thus, the choice of license, between permissive license and copyleft, is orthogonal to the philosophical choice of values, between free software and open source. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html for explanation of these points and many others. There are some licenses which are open source but not free. They are _too restrictive_ to be free. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list