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  • fossphi@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlIs GrapheneOS not actually FOSS?
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    1 month 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.










  • I really don’t think so.

    For the sake of simplicity, let’s go back to the time when websites were not full of JS and other modern web stuff

    You could in principle just wget the html file from a server and parse/render it without having to run that file. Like I said, it is like a simple markdown file.

    In terms of modern web, a crude analogy would be to look at the output from static site generators. In those, the server essentially doesn’t execute code, hence a lot of cloud providers can host your static sites for free