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From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> Sender: svlug-admin@lists.svlug.org Precedence: bulk List-Help: <mailto:svlug-request@lists.svlug.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:svlug@lists.svlug.org> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.svlug.org/mailman/listinfo/svlug>, <mailto:svlug-request@lists.svlug.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: discussion list for the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group. <svlug.lists.svlug.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.svlug.org/mailman/listinfo/svlug>, <mailto:svlug-request@lists.svlug.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlug/> begin Dagmar d'Surreal quotation: > It's just not under an "open source" licence. To most people, if the > source code is freely available and you can use it, it's open source > enough. Let's see. Ah, yes! > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103050321550.273-100000@evil.dsurreal.org> Well, it's more a question of what you trust to be maintainable in the future. (For this purpose, whether you _yourself_ are a code hacker is quite irrelevant.) U. of W. prohibits some of the key mechanisms by which project continuity can be carried out, and therefore is classified as proprietary. See: http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html for details. Furthermore, U. of W. _even_ has attempted to retroactively weasel out of the plain meaning of the free licence it used to use, through v. 3.91 -- maintaining that the public may freely distribute that code (as the licence stated) and may freely modify it (as the licence stated), but belatedly claiming that distributing _modified_ code is prohibited (which the licence did _not_ say). They threatened lawsuit against the FSF, over the latter matter. Rely on such people for your software if you really insist, but I sure wouldn't. More at: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#pine And furthermore, pilgrim, if "open source" _isn't_ measured by the terms of the Open Source Definition (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html), then I submit that it becomes nothing but yet another crappy marketing term. I don't know about you, but I don't intend to let that happen. ===