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> 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).



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