2011/4/3 Guru गुरु <[email protected]> > Friends, > > Nearly seven months after the discussions on public software on this list, > and a few off-line exchanges with some of our free software friends, we have > much more clarity on the term. The revised definition of public software is > provided on the site http://www.public-software.in/Public-software and > also below: > > Thanks Guru for taking time to share with all of us. I would first of all appreciate IT for change to take time to reflect, negotiate and engage with the issue and also took an action of modifying the statement on your website on what is the interpretation of public software, and how does it include free software, and it does not include any other software that is not free software. I am curious to know how others in the list think about this. I will go through the points carefully when I get more time and comment on it if necessary.
My dream: I am waiting for the OSI to say one day that all software that gives the four freedoms is open source. Though the definition does not say so, most of the OS advocates actually use the four freedoms to explain what is open source. I have not met any open source advocate so far who uses the ten conditions of the open source definition to explain what is open source. -- GN
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