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  • fossphi@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlIs GrapheneOS not actually FOSS?
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    27 days ago

    No, the FSF does define what free (as in freedom) software is. There are different licenses for linking (not running) against non free stuff. But being able to run proprietary programs doesn’t make something not free. Even on GNU certified free distros, one can run proprietary software. It just doesn’t come with it by default.

    There’s also a looser (imo) definition of open source software which doesn’t maintained all four freedoms.