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announcing freenginx.org
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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Actually, GNU is free software because it not only preserves the freedom of the user but it also preserves the freedom of the entire ecosystem. Lax licenses allow those freedoms to be taken away, a corporation can use that software to create a proprietary alternative and outcompete the open source one. With GPL, such maneuver is impossible.
No, free software does not have any restriction in any granted right, it is a requirement if they (authors) want themselves attributed.
GNU put restriction on modification and redistribution. Then they are just "open source", then they have do define the term "Free and Open source software" which use more words to describe the same thing (assume free software = foss, because GNU always claimed they are making free software).
Much innovations is impossible.
And such long word for a license, I don't want it fill up my A4.