"In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. (Historically, the makers of proprietary software have generally not made source code available.) Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available." Taken from http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid12_gci212709,00.html
I'd also suggest checking out the following definition of opensource (taken from the open source initiative) http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php Rom is VERY much open source. One does not have to be a part of the OSI, or licensed under such to be open source. One simply has to adhere to a few basic guidelines, the primary of which being that the source is open to all for modifications (hence, open source). If you picked up your local Rom distro NOT open source, you would have picked it up without any source whatsoever involved in it. Just a binary attatched that may/may not work on your server, and you could not modify one bit. Rom meets every definition of the OSI, as well as the exact paragraph that I just quoted. Those were just two of the many many links that came up with a minor bit of searching. Rom is VERY much distributed open source. You can freely re-distribute it, modify the code as you wish, do whatever you want with it. Obviously there's a few things that you CAN'T do with it, but anything must have its guidelines. On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 01:59, Jeremy Hill wrote: > ROM is not distributed open source. ------------------------ -- TJW :Head tech, designer, bum:P Mud :http://dreamless.wolfstream.net telnet :telnet://dreamless.wolfstream.net 9275 OLC Pages:http://olc.wolfstream.net
