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Sigh. Again.

"Free software" is not coterminous with copyleft. It includes copyleft and non copyleft free licenses like BSD. Even Stallman would happily call BSD- or MIT-licensed stuff free software.

The OSD was carefully chosen to incorporate what was already known as free software.



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