Mark Rages wrote:
>> If you require that "open" also means totally free to use
>> for whatever you want in any way you want, then most of what is
>> commonly referred to as "open" isn't, including everything from the
>> Open Software Foundation.
>
> Your last sentence is incorrect.
>
> Freedom 0 is the freedom to use the software for any purpose.

But the GPL doesn't give you that freedom without additional restrictions.
Perhaps the Open Software Foundation has released totally free code, so the
last part of my sentence should have been "including everything under the
GPL."


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