On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Alejandro Acosta wrote:
> I saw the words "open source" a lot along many Fedora presentations, but
> my doubts still remain. Do we have any policy regarding Open Source and/or
> Free Software? It is going to be hard to me to debate about freedom against
> RMS so I would prefer only to talk about our project, but stating clearly
> what we stand for.
In the main documents and webpages, we have traditionally preferred to use
free and open source or FOSS as a term to encompass both movements.
Understandable and seems fairly common among large distributions. This
term has always grated on me in the way saying squares and rectangles
would. If you are talking about squares say squares, if you are
talking about squares and rectangles just say rectangles. (No offense
to those who see a much bigger difference here. I see a bigger
difference too.)
Out of curiosity, are there any components of Fedora that are Open
Source but not Free Software?
John