[linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Feb 20 18:28:00 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:57 +1100, Ryan Heise wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:49:49PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > I hope you understand that there could be no "free software" without
> > copyright.
> 
> Source code in the public domain is free software without copyright.

That's free as in beer, not as in speech.  "Free software" in the Linux
world generally refers to the latter.

Lee




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