On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:23:06PM +0200, Newsbyte wrote: > yes, well, this reminds me of the eternal flamewars on /. between the > merrits of BSD and GPL. > > Not everyone sees it as black and white, however. > > Call it FLOSS, then, or 'public source' or whatever. Point is, as long as > the code is public and openly available, there is little to fear that > somehow the product would be a trap and insidiously have backdoors or sort.
Not true. Some of the Windows source is available. So is the source to the JDK. Both of these products still suck for the traditional closed source reasons. > > But it still would have DMCA protection. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Newsbyte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Toad" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:02 PM > Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] RE: anonymity(NOT) > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 25 Aug 2004, at 17:59, Newsbyte wrote: > > > > >> Such a tool would BY DEFINITION not be open source. And if it had to > > >> >run > > >> in its own JVM there would be a major performance cost at least on > > >> older > > >> JVMs. > > > > > > No, it wouldn't. In the sense of a GPL'ed Open source project, it > > > would, but > > > that's not the only licence possible for Open Source. It's perfectly > > > possible to make the code public and open source, but make a > > > reservation in > > > your licence that it may not be used to (make a tool to) circumvent the > > > encryption. > > > > Not according to section 6 of the Open Source definition: > > > > 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor > > > > The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in > > a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the > > program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic > > research. > > > > See: http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php > > > > Ian. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) > > > > iD8DBQFBLNQzQtgxRWSmsqwRAnPrAJ0bJq+470CQu57HBX/30a0wytPyvgCfTZJR > > SL9xCsZlR2lJ7ig9WVIYEE0= > > =Dhmw > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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