Also, GPL license: 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. However, when licenses get involved, things start to get messy... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Whiting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 2:27 AM Subject: Re: Incredible violation of trust and ethics, what should I do? > "In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made > available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. > (Historically, the makers of proprietary software have generally not > made source code available.) Open source software is usually developed > as a public collaboration and made freely available." > Taken from > http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid12_gci212709,00.html > > I'd also suggest checking out the following definition of opensource > (taken from the open source initiative) > http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php > > Rom is VERY much open source. One does not have to be a part of the OSI, > or licensed under such to be open source. One simply has to adhere to a > few basic guidelines, the primary of which being that the source is open > to all for modifications (hence, open source). > > If you picked up your local Rom distro NOT open source, you would have > picked it up without any source whatsoever involved in it. Just a binary > attatched that may/may not work on your server, and you could not modify > one bit. > > Rom meets every definition of the OSI, as well as the exact paragraph > that I just quoted. Those were just two of the many many links that came > up with a minor bit of searching. Rom is VERY much distributed open > source. You can freely re-distribute it, modify the code as you wish, do > whatever you want with it. > > Obviously there's a few things that you CAN'T do with it, but anything > must have its guidelines. > > > On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 01:59, Jeremy Hill wrote: > > ROM is not distributed open source. > > ------------------------ > > -- > TJW :Head tech, designer, bum:P > Mud :http://dreamless.wolfstream.net > telnet :telnet://dreamless.wolfstream.net 9275 > OLC Pages:http://olc.wolfstream.net > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
