-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:57:55PM -0700, Eric H. Jung wrote: > I don't know. I'm no open source expert, but I do know the words "open > source" mean, plain and simply, "source that is 'open' -- i.e., > available to the public". The words "open source" doesn't literally > apply any concept of borrowing or reuse, but perhaps the words have > grown additional (implied) meanings over time, just like so many other > words/phrases in the English language.
No, that is not all that "open source" means -- the term was deliberately created to replace the easily-misunderstood term "free software". The full definition of open source is available online and includes the right to use it for any purpose, make copies, and create derivative versions: http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php The meaning you're thinking of, code you can look at but not neccessarily touch, is probably best represented by the confusingly similar term "shared source": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source - -- Peter Harkins - http://push.cx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: If you don't know what this is, it's OK to ignore it. iD8DBQFEVWrOa6PWv6+ALKoRAgvKAJ4kJczcwSY/OnaTjiFx2S3+X7ldYgCaAjhv 0/aukNK9KHFkpTXVcgFz3Ac= =SwGY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
