[FC-discuss] Open Source less popular than Free Software

Asheesh Laroia freeculture at asheesh.org
Wed Sep 26 13:04:01 JST 2007


I wrote up a small program and a web page about it to answer the question 
for me: "Are more licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation, or 
instead by the Open Source Initiative?"  Here is a summary [0] of my 
findings:

     * Licenses approved by FSF alone: 51
     * Licenses approved by OSI alone: 43
     * Licenses approved by both: 16

Here's a fact, if you believe my results: There are more "Free Software" 
licenses than "Open Source" licenses.



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