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Subject: Re: define word FREE

Author: Robert Hollay

Date: 11:16:00 08/03/05

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On August 03, 2005 at 08:16:56, Kunnar Klauks wrote:

>Pro Deo is free as free beer not free as free speech. Some people make
>difference here. Fruit is open source program released with GPL licence. Pro Deo
>is AFAIK free download but closed source.
>
>My point is that Pro Deo is actually not Free Software.

I don't understand what is the problem here.

ProDeo is FREEWARE (it is not COMMERCIAL, TRUSTWARE, SHAREWARE, ...), but CLOSED
SOURCE.

Fruit is FREEWARE _and_ OPENSOURCE.

An opensource software can have different restrictions (e.g. GPL,MPL,IPL, ...).
That's all!




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