Re: Is the Guile license OSI approved?
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? 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... --- Martin Wolters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To whom it may concern: You can find a few open source projects on the web that use the so called guile license which is the GPL + the following paragraph: As a special exception, if you link this library with other files to produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. Example project: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/jaxp/ I expect, that software which uses this kind of license is still OSI certified although the license does not appear on the list of OSI approved licenses. Is this a correct assumption? -Martin W. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
Re: Is the Guile license OSI approved?
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:10:42 -0800 (PST) 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, tho for political reasons you're unlikely to ever see that response by OSI. It is relatively easy to argue, for instance, that the viral properties of the GPL are excessively restrictive and violate the spirit if not intent of the OSS definition -- but then that's an old, well thrashed, and very dead religious war. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
