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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2014-12-21 01:04:56
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Replace editorial commentary w/ FSF's link.

My personal comment here, which I wrote on 2003-05-26 (see
f05ce6c657e07a5e6c6def3f7ff8cb2b2bcf6246 ), is probably not particularly
useful. I still tend to use the phrasing as original stated in the
removed text herein; however, I'm admittedly the only one. I don't deny
that I hope to coin some terminology usage through my work on this
Guide, but this particular use of "nonfree software" to mean
"noncommercially proprietary" is not so important IMO that this Guide
must coin it.

The FSF's page on this doesn't make that distinction, and has much more
detail on this issue than this section does. Therefore, the
personal statement is removed, and the organizational statement on the
FSF's site is instead linked to.

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 (\defn{OSI}) (the arbiter of what is considered ``Open Source'') also regards
 such licenses as inconsistent with its ``Open Source Definition''.
 In general, software for which any of these freedoms are
 restricted in any way is called ``nonfree'' (or as I prefer to write it, ``non-Free'') software.  Some use the
 term ``proprietary software'' more or less interchangeably with
 ``non-Free software.''  Personally, I tend to use the term ``non-Free
 software'' to refer to software available noncommercially that restricts freedom
 (such as ``shareware'') and ``proprietary software'' to refer to
 commercial software that restricts freedom (such as nearly all of
 Microsoft's and Oracle's offerings).
 In general, software for which any of these freedoms are restricted in any
 way is called ``nonfree'' software.  Some use the term ``proprietary
 software'' more or less interchangeably with ``nonfree software''.  The FSF
 published a useful
 \href{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html}{explanation of various
   types of software and how they relate to one another}.
 Keep in mind that none of the terms ``software freedom'', ``open source''
 and ``free software'' are known to be trademarked or otherwise legally

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