When Open Source is not Free

Mon Sep 26 08:36:57 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 00:47 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> Seen in wikipedia:
> 
> "The capitalized term "Open Source" is attached to a definition
> originally created in 1998 from Debian's rewrite of the GNU definition
> of "Free Software". As a result, nearly all Open Source programs are
> Free Software, but there are some exceptions."
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
> 
> Does anyone knows of one of these exceptions mentioned in that quote on
> Wikipedia (of an open source program that isn't a Free Software)?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Robitaille   
>   Email: robitaille at ubuntu.com   Jabber: robitaille at jabberme.org
> 
> 
Sun's Solaris OS¹, a lot of Sun's JAVA code and some *old* versions of
Python (but not the newer ones) are examples of an Open Source project
but are not Free Software.

Ziyad.

Footnote:
     1. http://www.opensolaris.org