On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:07:23PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote: > Also, it might good to talk about implementations of languages being > open source, rather than the languages themselves. It's a bit pedantic, > but I think it can be worded naturally, and it would emphasize the > conceptual cut one has to make to really understand the answer. If you > compile your C program with Borland's C compiler, that doesn't make your > program closed-source; by the same token, if you run your Python program > on the most widely-used implementation of Python, which is open source, > that doesn't make your code open source by default. > > People who ask that question may think they're asking about the > language, but they're really asking about the particular language > implementation. This should be made clear to them in the answer.
+1. I encounter a surprising amount of confusion about this point. - Richard _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss