[TOS] New open source text book!!!

Schalk Neethling volume4.schalk at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 19:28:35 UTC 2024


Hey All,

I opened this pull request in an attempt to update the definition and
relationship to free and open source software:
https://github.com/pearcej/opensource/pull/310

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 5:45 PM Mark Galassi <mark at galassi.org> wrote:

>
> > [...] but I found a glaring mistake in the
> > first chapter. In "What is Open Source"
>
> I agree with Stefano: that is a real problem and it should be fixed at
> once.
>
> "Free and open source software" and "open source software" and "free
> software" refer to the same body of software, just with different emphasis
> on goals.
>
> The very small differences between the open source definition and the free
> software definition are tiny compared to this major mistake.
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