Hi, On 4/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Linux is free software. Linux is open source software in sense that the source > code is available. So according to you Open Source means just availability of source code. This is interesting. > Please note, I am not speaking of licensing in any of my previous mails. I am > not speaking of Open Source tm, OSI Certification, or Open Source Development > Methodology. May I know what *Open Source* term you are talking of. When we talk of the term Open Source it definitely refers to Open Source Initiative. http://www.opensource.org/ Please don't confuse eveyone further. > >There are licenses which are OSI certified but not Free Software and vice > > versa. > > Ok, this is interesting. I would like to know which licenses would make some > software Free Software but not Open Source software. Let me repeat... there are Free Software licenses that are not listed in OSI certified list of Open Source licenses. You can verify yourself. Why? I don't know. May be because you have to apply to get an OSI certification and no one bothered to apply for those licenses to get an OSI certification. > Or rather checking out the meaning of Free software : > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > and Open Source Software: > http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php > come up with condition which would make some software Free Software but not > Open Source software. Did I ever claim that there are conditions in Open Source definitions that restricts a license from being labelled Free Software.Even if there is one I don't know because I'm too novice to understand intricacies of the definition and various licensing terms. Quoting from the article: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html "The official definition of ``open source software,'' as published by the Open Source Initiative, is very close to our definition of free software; however, it is a little looser in some respects, and they have accepted a few licenses that we consider unacceptably restrictive of the users. However, the obvious meaning for the expression ``open source software'' is ``You can look at the source code.'' This is a much weaker criterion than free software; it includes free software, but also includes semi-free programs such as Xv, and even some proprietary programs, including Qt under its original license (before the QPL)." Regards Nikhil Prabhakar -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
