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Free software, as defined by the fsf, preserves the users freedom to study, change and distribute the software. The right to study entails that the source code be made available: Wikipedia article. Calibre is licensed as GPL3, thus it is free software as defined by the fsf.
WinSCP, for the transfer-then-delete function. It’s the only thing I run under WINE.also open sourceCalibre, for doing everything I need with ebooksedit: Calibre still does everything I need but is open sourceEdit: thank you to everyone who pointed out my incorrect info
Calibre is free software
free != open source, but apparently Calibre is open-source and I didn’t realize it. I will edit my post. THank you for making me check my facts. :-)
Open source is a subset of free software. Free software is always open source.
Hmmm no free software can be closed source. Neither is the subset of the other but they intersect
Free software, as defined by the fsf, preserves the users freedom to study, change and distribute the software. The right to study entails that the source code be made available: Wikipedia article. Calibre is licensed as GPL3, thus it is free software as defined by the fsf.
You’re absolutely correct. Not to be confused with freeware which is more ambiguous and most often proprietary (though not always).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware
But WinSCP is opensource too: https://github.com/winscp/winscp
I’m 0/2!