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[โ€“] Syntha@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] airglow@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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.