> I know some folks tend to not count BSD, Public Domain, etc as open source.
This isn’t true, unless you’re talking about some niche opinion held by a few eccentric people.
Even Richard Stillman, probably the most ardent and uncompromising copyleft activist in the world (elevating the GPL to nearly religious status) accepts that non-copyleft licenses like BSD are open-source (and free software, a term he prefers).
This isn’t true, unless you’re talking about some niche opinion held by a few eccentric people.
Even Richard Stillman, probably the most ardent and uncompromising copyleft activist in the world (elevating the GPL to nearly religious status) accepts that non-copyleft licenses like BSD are open-source (and free software, a term he prefers).