On Thursday 13 April 2006 20:02, nipra wrote:
On 4/13/06, devendralaulkar@gmail.com devendralaulkar@gmail.com wrote:
Free software is a subset of open source software.
I beg to differ.There are many Free Software Licenses that are not listed in OSI certified license list.At the last count there were around 65 Free Software Licenses(GPL compatible or incompatible) listed against around 57 OSI certified. Certainly a subset can't have more elements than its parent set :-)
If we consider free software, then the source code of the software must be available. In spirit, free software is a subset of open source software.
Regarding licenses, well, you really cannot count the number of licenses and compare free and open source software.
-Devendra Laulkar.