On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Christophe Dupre wrote: > Hello Mark, > I've just re-read the OSD document, and I'm not sure we read the same > one. You claim that 2a and 2d are unacceptable and violate OSD#3. > OSD#3 is not violated: you can change the code, you can distribute those > modifications. #3 doesn't say that it needs to be completely > unrestricted. In particular, anyone could decide to fork the code and > maintain their own tree.
Only if their fork is still a software library. Nobody can fork it to become an application. Defining "software library" becomes tricky, and it's unclear whether it can be forked to become a Mozilla plugin, for example. Would code that allowed modification only if the result was "A Microsoft Windows Application" be considered open source? That allows most modifications too. -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.dagon.net/> -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3