[GTALUG] "'Opens source' is not 'free software'"

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 13 July 2017 at 11:27, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

> ​> ​
> Can developers
> > incorporate GPL software while wholly circumventing the FSF's social
> goals?
> > This paradigm needs to be addressed but IMO has been largely ignored for
> an
> > assortment of reasons.
>
> I believe the answer is that yes they can.  This appears to be why the
> AGPL license exists as per this:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.en.html



​It exists, but barely
<https://www.blackducksoftware.com/top-open-source-licenses>, to the point
of irrelevance. And even the description of the license admits that it
doesn't really solve the open/closed issues inherent in SaaS.
So my point stands that this is an important facet of software freedom that
has been lost amidst the dogmatism of "free software" versus "open source".

- Evan
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