Richard Stallmann has an interesting piece on FLOSS and FOSS definition, containing this:
> A researcher studying practices and methods used by developers in the free software community decided that these questions were independent of the developers' political views, so he used the term “FLOSS,”
Unfortunately he doesn't name that researcher, whom he is attributing FLOSS to. Anyone knows?
According to Stallmann "FLOSS" is the most inclusive term including open source with a non-free license though:
> Thus, if you want to be neutral between free software and open source, and clear about them, the way to achieve that is to say “FLOSS,” not “FOSS.”
So and I'm suprised by that, while L stands for libre according to Stallman, the acronym FLOSS is a actually a more liberal term because it is neutral to whether the software in question free or only open source.
[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
> A researcher studying practices and methods used by developers in the free software community decided that these questions were independent of the developers' political views, so he used the term “FLOSS,”
Unfortunately he doesn't name that researcher, whom he is attributing FLOSS to. Anyone knows?
According to Stallmann "FLOSS" is the most inclusive term including open source with a non-free license though:
> Thus, if you want to be neutral between free software and open source, and clear about them, the way to achieve that is to say “FLOSS,” not “FOSS.”
So and I'm suprised by that, while L stands for libre according to Stallman, the acronym FLOSS is a actually a more liberal term because it is neutral to whether the software in question free or only open source.
[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html