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Discussion on: Working in Public: how can we solve the problems of open source?

 
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Sriram Ramkrishna

When I am using social contract - I'm not referring to any guidelines or anything - just the use of an OSI approved license is the social contract that's why I added the license. By using the license, you're saying I'm going to open up my code so that you all can participate. I'm not using a formality as defined by Debian Social contract.

But your comment does not invalidate the difference between Free Software and Open Source - Free Software is a social and political movement - Open Source is not - it is a method of collaborative engineering that involves the programming and non-programming public.