On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> wrote: > > It may be also worth to observe the differences between FOSS vs OSS, > and that there is no mention of "Free" on the http://www.osgeo.org front page. > Please, notice there is OSI, not FSF, logo on > http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Andy Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of course [1] is one reason why Stallman implemented the copyleft requirement: > > http://opensource.org/faq#copyleft > > On Oct 14, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Barry Rowlingson < [email protected]> wrote: > > > As long as they obey the license terms, I don't think OSGeo should > > worry about taking money from PropGeo Corp. OSGeo does not suffer from > > Stallmania, an uncontrollable urge to insist all software should be > > free. > > > > [1] and some (no names) by releasing code that needs their proprietary > > code to work anyway, we call this "open-washing"... > > http://opensource.com/business/14/12/openwashing-more-prevalent We are going little bit off topic here, but as I see it, it is a part of the "being open source compass" to inform users about things such as what open means, why proprietary software companies contribute, what copyleft means for developers and what for users, why this open source based cloud is not for free, and why this open source plugin to my open source software needs this proprietary and paid software to actually work. Vaclav
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