fileset without makefiles Open Source?!

2001-10-18 Thread Harald Albrecht
Lately I had a discussion with someone who wants to provide source code for his project, but without makefile(s). He intends to call it Open Source. He also intends that people can look at the implementation and tweak it if they like but have to write the makefiles themselves if they want to

Re: fileset without makefiles Open Source?!

2001-10-18 Thread Russell Nelson
Harald Albrecht writes: Lately I had a discussion with someone who wants to provide source code for his project, but without makefile(s). He intends to call it Open Source. G. Nobody has a trademark on Open Source, so he can call it that if he wants. But he's gonna annoy a lot

Re: fileset without makefiles Open Source?!

2001-10-18 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: Lately I had a discussion with someone who wants to provide source code for his project, but without makefile(s). He intends to call it Open Source. G. Nobody has a trademark on Open Source, so he can call it that if he wants.

Re: fileset without makefiles Open Source?!

2001-10-18 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:10 am, Harald Albrecht wrote: Lately I had a discussion with someone who wants to provide source code for his project, but without makefile(s). He intends to call it Open Source. He also intends that people can look at the implementation and tweak it if they