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Dear Design Awards, As a user of the open-source, collaborative effort, Fink project <http://fink.sourceforge.net/>, I would really like to see Fink enter, and of course, win. The people who really make Fink work deserve a lot of credit, and those of us who use Fink would like to see them get that credit. There is some troubling language in the full contest rules, namely: > Each entrant warrants that the entry is original and owned by entrant, > or in the case of an entry in the BEST MAC OS X OPEN SOURCE PORT > category, warrants that they are the sole contributor to, and have > exclusive rights to, the Mac OS X related portion s of the Work and > that the remainder of the code is available under an Open Source > license, free of any claims by other parties. This language has created some concern on the fink-users mailing list, since none of the contributers have "exclusive rights to, the Mac OS X related portions of the Work" (that would defeat some of the purpose of open source, wouldn't it?). Is such legal language designed to exclude a true open source project, like Fink? Awaiting your answer, Jonathan Simon -- Jonathan Z. Simon Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742 USA Office: 1-301-405-3645, Lab: 1-301-405-6581, Fax: 1-301-314-9281 http://www.isr.umd.edu/Labs/CSSL/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
