You are right I missed the part where OSI became stupid and immitated FSF it wasn't always like that AFAIK. you are right OSI and FSF are the same, but opensource and fs are not the same by far. one require the program to be free one require the program to be giving with its sources. and altough OSI no longer know the diffrance law people does. they don't expect sun to give away solaris for free or ms to give windows for free they want to have the source code with it. even BSDI required license then suddenly they are not open source anymore?
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: open source law?": > > OPEN SOURCE (not fs) > > Oh, let's not start this pointless and endless argument again :( > There is no difference between "Open Source" (www.opensource.org) > and "Free Software" (not copyleft!) licenses. These are two political > camps, emphesizing different things - not two license types. > > If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... > > See also http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/stallman.html > where Stallman is admitting (surprise!): > > "... "Free software" and "Open Source" describe the same category of > software, more or less, but say different things about the software, > and about values. The GNU Project continues to use the term "free > software," to express the idea that freedom, not just technology, is > important." > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Oct 2 2002, 26 Tishri 5763 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |A Nobel Peace Prize? I would KILL for one > http://nadav.harel.org.il |of those. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
