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Good&Evil is a classic altrock album by Tally Hall, and now, for something completely different, JSON (media.kbin.social)

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[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

[-] maxmalrichtig@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

Well put me in a dress and call me Sheryl. Never knew that the "accepted definitions" were really that close. Thanks!

I knew that some definitions of OSS were really basic (as in "as long as there is source at some point") but I didn't know that the OSI definition was so close to the idea of "free software".

I found the read about the history and similarities & differences quite interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20180915200609/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html