Well as for the name goes, Its a very small number of applications which are legally OpenSource and not Free Software .. In percentage that might come out to be somewhere in 1% or maybe lesser.
Rest all software are legally Free Software and by their licensing they are GPL or MIT or BSD or some other Free License..., but their authors detest the term Free Software and prefer to use OpenSource instead.
So the point that naming the forum OpenSource because it covers both Free Software and OpenSource software is meaningless since there's hardly any software which is just OpenSource and not Free Software.
The term OpenSource is a marketting gimmik and we should understand it. By the defination of OpenSource, one does not get as much freedom and power of creativity as can be had with FreeSoftware term... (ps: i'm talking about the legal meaning of the two terms, in terms of their licensing)
If people do not know about the difference then they have to be told that. One needs to tell the difference between the licensing differences between them.
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