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Look into where the term "open source" came from (the "Open Source Initiative").

Here's a quote from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source):

> Open source as a term emerged in the late 1990s by a group of people in the free software movement who were critical of the political agenda and moral philosophy implied in the term "free software" and sought to reframe the discourse to reflect a more commercially minded position.

The GPL and Free Software were always political from the very moment Richard Stallman conceived of the GPL.




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No, I think I just misread the comment I replied to. :/




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