On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Dalke <[email protected]> wrote: > A free software project doesn't have to take all, or even any, external > patches. > > Neither does an open source project. > > Why should an open specification be any different? > > Freedom is the right to use and share, not the right to force others to > accept your contributions.
This is actually why I am keen on my definition of Open Specification... the right to fork. This has shown invaluable in Open Science, and CC0, public domain, and other liberal licenses do the same for Open Data... I love to see this possible in Open Specifications too... Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
