On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Ben Tilly wrote: > On 2/22/07, Bobbi Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Those who were at the last boston.pm meeting may recall my asking if there > > was some place where I could find out about various open-source > > not-necessarily-perl-based blog/wiki/forum software. > > > > People kindly threw out some names of OS stuff they knew about. > > > > In the meantime, there must be something in the air, because someone on an > > internal mailing list posted a query about OpenSource CMS's today, which > > yielded a link to http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php This looks like > > what I was asking for, so I thought I'd pass it on. > > I went to the site and couldn't see anything without supplying a > login. That's annoying. Googling about them, they seem to be GPLed, > but I couldn't verify that. > > If they aren't GPLed then please be aware that there is a lot of > software in this space that claims to be open source but whose claims > are questionable. In particular they use licenses that have not been > submitted to the OSI for approval, and which would probably fail to > meet the open source definition if they did. > > The problem is that they insist on clauses mandating that there must > be a specific logo displayed that links to a specific company. People > object to this on a number of grounds. First of all, that it > introduces a requirement for a specific technology in violation of OSD > #10. (For instance it would be against the license to produce a > command-line tool derived from their software.) Weaker objections > have also been advanced on several other grounds, notably that putting > this much pressure against commercial reuse is discriminating against > specific fields of endeavour. > > For more on this, see http://linuxgazette.net/134/moen.html. > > If those limitations do not bother you, then go ahead and use the > software. But don't call things open source unless they are. > > Cheers, > Ben > I don't know where you were asked to log in. If you want to do a "try before you install", there is an "Admin Login" link, *right below which* is the demo username password.
About the other stuff: I didn't spend a lot of time surfing around the site, so can't confirm/deny your other concerns. I agree that Open Source should have some meaning, but I'm not going to take the time now to do a heavy analysis as to whether any/all of the software listed on the site does or doesn't fall within commonly-understood meanings of "Open Source". Note I am *not* advocating the site; just providing another resource. If someone has some other resource that compares/contrasts this kind of software, I'd be delighted to follow those links. -- Bobbi Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database-driven and Web-enabled applications development http://www.newtoncitizens.com/bobbifoxskills.shtml _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
