Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:06:39 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Message-ID: <199911230506.XAA06976@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:54:34 MST." <4.2.0.58.19991122215243.043d9ef0@localhost>
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Brett Glass writes: > At 10:31 PM 11/22/1999 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > >Brett, you've fallen into the trap layed by the left-wingers of equating > >"Open Source" with "Freely Redistributable". Any vendor who includes > >source code with the product is "Open Source" (or should be able to > >wear such a label). > > While including the source code to ROMs is a good thing, IMHO, it is not > what is commonly called "open source" nowadays. Another term is probably > needed to describe this practice. Right, these days "Open Source" has been twisted into a different political agenda. The word "free" or any form of "redistribute" is lacking from "Open Source". And I admit the term, "Freely Redistributable" doesn't imply source. So maybe its time to coin a term which excludes GPL: Freely Redistributable Open Source. FROS for short. Linux and GPL would only qualify as ROS. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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