On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:10 am, Harald Albrecht wrote: > Lately I had a discussion with someone who wants to provide source code > for his project, but without makefile(s). He intends to call it "Open > Source". He also intends that people can look at the implementation and > tweak it if they like but have to write the makefiles themselves if they > want to use his work.
The source code files that you release would be Open Source, provided that the user is permitted to modify, build and redistribute the result along with their own makefiles. But the program itself would not be Open Source. That's because the program doesn't include all of the source code, namely the makefiles. Yes, makefiles are source code too. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
