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Open source software is practically the same as free software, with only a handful of deviations:

In “Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software,” Stallman explains: “The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.”

FOSS is just the term for both groups together (Free and Open Source Software).

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You have it backwards. Free and Open Source software is Open Source (subset). But Open Source is not Free and Open Source (superset).

Langfuse is a great example of where this is the case: https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse/blob/main/LICENSE

It is open source, but all features under the ee folder are not free, thus it is not FOSS.

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From reviewing the license, the portions under the ee directory are not open source, they’re source-available with some additional grants of rights given certain conditions.

Here’s the definition I use for “open source”, and here’s the one I use for “free software”. Most (all?) free software licenses meet the definition of free software, but not all open source licenses meet the definition of free software, so that’s why I tend to set that free software is a subset of open source software.

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That is exactly what I said above.

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