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Discussion on: Choosing Open Source License Wisely🤔

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Anis-Barghouthi

There is no such thing as the OpenSourceFoundation, there is the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, these are separate non-profit organisations, the term "Free Software" is coined and defined by the FSF (see gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html), while the term "Open-Source" is defined by the OSI (see opensource.org/osd).
Although both of these terms, in most cases, refer to more or less the same thing, there are some differences that you can find in this article:
gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-mis...

The opposite term for both of these is "Proprietary Software" or "Non-Free Software".

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Kingkor Roy Tirtho

Thanks for the info. I thought OpenSourceFoundation & OpenSourceInitiative refers to same but now looks like not