Re: Excluded and other middles in licensing

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Rubin
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_source any program whose licensing terms do not qualify as open source. A definition with a nice big This article may need to be reworded to conform to a neutral point of view warning at the top. ;-) ... There

Re: Excluded and other middles in licensing

2005-01-07 Thread Alex Martelli
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note also from the Heine-Borel theorem that every closed source program can be covered by some finite collection of open source programs. Every _compact_ one, surely? Quoting by heart from old memories, but, isn't Heine-Borel about (being able

Re: Excluded and other middles in licensing

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: Note also from the Heine-Borel theorem that every closed source program can be covered by some finite collection of open source programs. Every _compact_ one, surely? Quoting by heart from old memories, but, isn't Heine-Borel about (being able

Excluded and other middles in licensing (was: The Industry choice)

2005-01-06 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . One last reflection -- I believe there are or used to be some programs written by people no doubt of very good will, distributed with all sources and

Re: Excluded and other middles in licensing

2005-01-06 Thread Robert Kern
Cameron Laird wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . One last reflection -- I believe there are or used to be some programs written by people no doubt of very good will, distributed