Debian Games = OpenContent ?

[Javier Candeira]

Linas Žvirblis wrote:
> Christian Melsbach wrote:
> 
>>> I am trying to build a website about games that are open source and use open content. 
> 
> There is a difference between Free and Open Source. For example you can

Since the Open Source Definition fits the Debian Free Software Guidelines
word-for-word (both documents are written by Bruce Perens), it is fitting
that most Open Source licenses will be Free too according to the DFSG, and
that any difference will be of interpretation.

You may want to call your software Free instead of Open Source for
political/philosoophical reasons (indeed, so do I), but for 99'99% of the
cases, Free and Open Source are functional synonyms.

> release the source with a license saying "you cannot modify it, unless
> you pay me some megabucks". That would make it Open Source, but not Free.

False. The Open Source Definition clearly states that source must be
available and freely modifiable. There are no Open Source Certified licenses
with a clause clause like what you describe.

Your example falls in what I would call "available source".

Regards,

-- javier