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We want to mainstream this software,
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and I work with Richard Stallman
who's the gray haired man of Free Software,
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uh, on a regular basis, and I don't feel
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I have any philosophical differences.
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me as author the Open Source definition and
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he is originator of free software as an organized thing,
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except for one thing.
Richard thinks that all software should be free,
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and I think that free software and
non-free software should coexist.
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That's the only difference we have.
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Uh, we decided early on that what we needed,
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a..a definition, we needed a kind of
meta-license to define the term "Open Source".
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a, a definition, we needed a kind of
meta-license to define the term "Open Source".
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And what we came up with is a document called
"The Open Source Definition".
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It's derived from the Debian Free Software guidelines
that were originally written by Bruce Parens.
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I'd written the original draft of that, uh,
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discussed it for a month with the Debian developers
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Debian is a Linux distribution
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And made it their project policy
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And Eric and I decided to relabel
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what we'd written for Debian
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as The Open Source definition
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and to say Open Source is a software
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that gives you a list of nine rights
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which is in the Open Source definition.
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The first right is Free Redistribution
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This doesn't mean Free as in no price
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It means liberty
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Um, you have to be free to redistribute
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your software to someone else
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And actually no price is a side effect
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You can charge for that redistribution or not