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> I have always assumed it to mean the intersection of the two contexts. As in, necessarily copyleft.

The definitions are very, very similar. Neither imply copyleft; almost all open source licenses are free software licenses and vice versa.

> As far as I'm concerned the OSI doesn't have any weight and there's little reason to think we share values sufficiently for me to start caring. Do I look like a corporation trying to slap some sense of community on a product?

All I'm saying is that if we accept "free" as implying the GNU free software definition, then we should accept "open source" as implying the OSI definition. There is no logical reason for why GNU's jargon is somehow better than OSI's.




> Neither imply copyleft

The "free software" part necessarily implies copyleft.

> There is no logical reason for why GNU's jargon is somehow better than OSI's.

There's no logical reason to conflate them, either. I'm free to mock the term as I see fit.




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