On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:53:42 -0600 Juan Alberto Cirez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Open source software is ANY piece of software whose 'source' (i.e source > code) is open to peer review, correction, modification and/or upgrade. > Nothing more, nothing less. In my mind to be 'Open Source' there would not be a requirement to allow correction, modification or upgrading. Simply making the source code available for review would qualify. However the OSI does have a criteria which it uses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition > The idea that it is a philosophy, belief and/or religion is laughable. That would be the differentiation between an 'Open Source' license and the 'OpenSource'/'Free' software movement. There are many people (myself included) that there are significant benefits to the creation and use of 'OpenSource'/'Free' software, as such I guess you could class that as a philosphy/belief/religion. Simon. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
