Well the GPL crowd has kind of conflated open source with code licensed under 
the GPL.  And yes I have met Richard Stallman on many occasions. And I'm sure 
he would also disagree on my definition of open source

Heck under those terms code released under the BSD license does not qualify as 
'open source'.  



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On Dec 7, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Mike S <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/7/2012 4:08 PM, Scott McGrath wrote:
>> that was my point code is open source means open for inspection by
>> end-user.   The tool chain is irrelevant unless it comes from GPL or
>> similar licenses.   Back in the mainframe days most code was
>> proprietary but distributed to customer in the form of source code to
>> be compiled by the end user.  That code was 'Open Source' e
> 
> Not by the most commonly accepted definition: http://opensource.org/docs/osd
> 
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