On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, John Cowan wrote:
> So if you devise qmail patches, you can pass them to your friends.
I wasn't contesting that in any way. I was contesting Brian's claim
that passing around patches was not enough in the *spirit* of open
source. I think that patches and binaries are enough.
> > and people
> > need to be able to distribute binaries of their hacks for people less
> > inclined to compile themselves.
>
> I agree. But that's not what the OSD says.
Well, I expressed my opinion:
I think that "...software built from modified source code..."
implies *binaries* built from modified source code fairly
clearly. Which is not allowed.
That is, I think the distinction made is sufficiently clear for people
who are not trying to avoid the obvious interpretation. Not that I'm
arguing "don't change it," just that I think Brian's interpretation is
specious.
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Matthew Weigel
Research Systems Programmer
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