on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:10:42PM -0800, Andy Tai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Given the history of Free Software and Open Source (that Open Source > is a marketing name (Bruce Perens) or marketing program (Eric Raymond) > for Free Software), can there be any question that a software license > the Free Software Foundation published is not Open Source? Yes. A licenses OSI Open Source status is derived from what it allows and disallows, not on who its author is. > FSF may never seek OSI approval for its licenses (the source needs no > approval from the derivative), but implicitly any GNU software license > is Open Source... Wrong. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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