Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:15:17 -0800 From: "D.M.P." <dmp@aracnet.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, greyheart@fnmail.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Message-ID: <383A22E5.DF5C6114@aracnet.com> References: <Message from Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> <4.2.0.58.19991122123435.042bf850@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19991122215243.043d9ef0@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > 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. Published source. -- [dmp@aracnet.com] Matthew 7:7-8 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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