• Syntha
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    3 hours ago

    The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources

    So as I understand it, under the OSI definition of the word, anything distributed under a copyleft licence would not be open source.

    So all software with GNU GPL, for example.

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      2 hours ago

      That’s incorrect. GPL licenses are open source.

      The GPL does not restrict anyone from selling or distributing GPL-licensed software as a component of an aggregate software distribution. For example, all Linux distributions contain GPL-licensed software, as the Linux kernel is GPLv2.