Dixitur de Russell Nelson respondebo ad: (...) >Good. Close. Better than my previous attempt. What do you think >of this: > > 2. Source Code > > The license applies to source code. A compiled executable is > considered a derived work. Such an executable is only open source > if its source code is also open source. When a compiled > executable is not distributed with source code, there must be a > well publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more > than a reasonable reproduction cost -- preferably, downloading via > the Internet without charge or access restrictions. The source > code so offered must be in the preferred form in which a > programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated > source code does not qualify. Intermediate forms such as the > output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
This breaks things which do not only consider code being licensed under $any_license but any kind of "work" (be it code, documentation, books etc.) which is the form I prefer to write. I usually put "work" and not "code" under X.Net (formerly MIT/BSD), because I feel that this is more concerning the distribution as whole and does not center/focus on the code. In my eyes, for most simple work the documentation is lot more an effort than the actual code. I might be wrong, and I definitively am wrong on things such as the Linux kernel, as any larger project, but for smaller projects this seems ok. >Of course, a big problem with the OSD is that it talks about legal >requirements, and yet was not touched by a lawyer before being cast >into stone. Any kind of extensive rewrite probably ought to be done >by people with actual experience with the law, as opposed to >dilettantes like you and I. And me. Ok, but OSI is a nice attempt. -mirabilos -- Redistribution via AOL or the Microsoft network prohibited! According to billg's Win32 GetMessage() API, the return value of type BOOL can be one of {nonzero|zero|-1} and thus BOOL is tristate. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3