On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Ronygnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Free Software movement believes that all software should be free (freedom). Open Source movement aims for business acceptably,which means that free and proprietary software should coexist. So they're ideologically different movements.
Thats why the word Libre software was coined to remove any ambiguity.
No, Libre is used when there is need to clarify that it is free as in freedom. Which means that it is still Free software. Which is different from Open Source.
A practical difference is this:
Free Software: GPL licenses only. Hence, freedom and rights of the user and developer are protected
Open Source Software: BSD, MIT, GPL, Creative Commons, etc. Basically licenses under which source code reuse and redistribution is allowed, regardless of whether the rights are passed on/retained or not.