Re: Self-certification

2001-10-03 Thread Forrest J Cavalier III
> > These are good suggestions. They will be turned into reality with the > greatest alacrity if you make them changes yourself and submit them to > us. Proposed "consumer-centric" index.html for www.opensource.org is attached. Comments very much encouraged, on-list or in private. Forrest T

Re: Section 2 source distribution terms (was Re: GPL vs APSL (was: YAPL is bad))

2001-10-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Karsten M. Self writes: > - Ensure that sources are distributable. Not only distributable, but also available. Sigh. Last time I sat down to rewrite #2, I ended up concluding that we really need to have *two* OSD's: one describing source code, and another describing the distribution of a spe

Re: Self-certification

2001-10-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Forrest J. Cavalier III writes: > opensource.org has always been laid out as a website for > producers. (I think it sort of invites you to write your own > license, based on the ordering and wording of links.) But > isn't the purpose of a mark to inform consumers, not producers? > > Perhap

Re: The Invisible Hand

2001-10-03 Thread Russell Nelson
David Johnson writes: > Practicality leads to moral results, and morality leads to practical results. > Open Source is free and Free Software is open. There is no need to divide > this community up into factions. Quite true. However, we don't want the actions of bearded radicals to scare th

Re: Section 2 source distribution terms (was Re: GPL vs APSL (was:YAPL is bad))

2001-10-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Thorsten Glaser writes: > 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.) OSI certifies software, not documentation, as open source. There are various documentation licenses out there. We'

Re: forums

2001-10-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Update: Peter Thoeny is going to set up a new web for "my" experimental uses, including this purpose. I don't know exactly when it will be set up, and I've suggested the name Wikilearn (which is the name of the site I've been working to set up). If this link doesn't work (http://twiki.org/cgi-b