From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 22 21: 7:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1FF614BE2 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:07:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-55.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.55]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA22614; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:06:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA06976; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:06:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199911230506.XAA06976@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL In-reply-to: Message from Brett Glass of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:54:34 MST." <4.2.0.58.19991122215243.043d9ef0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:06:39 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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