Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:54:34 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: greyheart@fnmail.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991122215243.043d9ef0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199911230431.WAA06609@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <Message from Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> <4.2.0.58.19991122123435.042bf850@localhost>
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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. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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