On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:30 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > Richard Stallman says he has 'no favor of open source' By saying this, RMS is trying to make a distinction between "Open Source" software and "Free" software. In the case of the former, you may indeed have rights to read through the source code, but no rights to modify, re-use, or redistribute that software. RMS's definition of "Free" software is software that you are free to use, modify, redistribute, etc., as long as the original license carries through. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140312/a0cb7d3d/attachment.html>