Think my point is that android software is open source ... but the android open platform is google.
Open platform - business arrangement between platform provider, customers and vendors Open software source - software license model On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:11 AM James Klassen <[email protected]> wrote: > Historically, labeling software "open" has meant built to open standards > that anyone else could theoretically implement. For example OpenLook, > OpenSTEP, The Open Software Foundation (the group behind the Motif X11 > toolkit - and the lack of a free and open source implementation was a major > stumbling block in porting lots of existing software to Linux prior to > lessrif and then the general switch to GTK), X/Open. > > It wasn't until the late 90's that "open" started being used as shorthand > for "open source" largely due to the influence of esr (Eric S. Raymond) as > a pragmatic response to the commonly held (and in my opinion incorrect) > view at the time that free software as promoted by RMS (Richard Stallman) > wasn't suitable for use by businesses. > > I know this may be seen as many as semantic minutiae, but this email > thread seems to be getting at the now decades old argument about the > differences between "open source" and free (as in libre) software. This > differentiation is well covered online, so I will not repeat it here. > > So in my view of the terms: > > Can a proprietary system be "open"? Yes and based on historical usage > even closed source systems can be labeled "open". > > Can a proprietary system be "open source"? Again historically yes. As an > extreme example of this, I believe once upon a time Microsoft open-sourced > many parts of Windows but with an extremely restrictive license and > limitations that certainly did and do not meet the norms of the open source > community. IIRC The early versions of Qt also were also a less extreme > example of this. > > Can proprietary software be free/libre? No, by definition. > On Mar 23, 2017 04:21, "María Arias de Reyna" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Luís Moreira de Sousa < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe we need a regulatory framework for "open source" labelling; > something like the EU regulation 1169/2011 [2] for organic farming. It not > only sets the criteria for farmers to label their products, as it actively > prevents others from falsely claiming to that criteria. > > > > +1 Restarting the movement for the european chapter to be able to lobby > for this... > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- -- Jody Garnett
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