On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 09:53 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Dear Lars, > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 05:18:38PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I personally don't find "open core" projects to be fully free > > software, even if they follow current DFSG, OSI, and FSF criteria. I > > may be in a minority with that view, of course. > > Possibly we should change mailing list, but could you explain more? > > I agree that there can be good reasons to avoid open core projects: the > open core part might not be adequately maintained, it might be > prohibitively hard to reimplement non-open core features, etc. But none > of these are reasons why open core projects are not DFSG-free.
Lars said that even though they are DFSG-free they do not satisfy his own personal Freeness criteria. He didn't suggest they weren't DFSG- free which is what you seem to have read (judging from the final sentence). Ian.
