Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:38:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Cc: brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Message-ID: <199911231838.LAA01689@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199911230506.XAA06976@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "David Kelly" at Nov 22, 99 11:06:39 pm
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> > >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. With respect... "Open Source" is a common law trademark of the Open Source Initiative. They also have a registration for a service mark, "OSI Certified" and another "OSI Certified Open Source". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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