From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:10:12 GMT
Date: 2004-03-28T22:10:12+00:00 [thread overview]
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>> It is open source, but no, not OSI-compliant.
>
>Please don't use the term �open source�, if you don't mean it. The
>OSI definition is the only generally accepted definition of the term
>�open source�, that I am aware of.
Two common methods of signaling a special usage of a phrase are to
enclose it in quotes, or to capitalize each word. Neither of those was
done in this case, suggesting the author was not trying to use the term in
its, sometimes, special meaning. Also, if someone wants to restrict usage
of the phrase, they should trademark it. Of course someone might point
out that, prior to Inflation of the Internet, lots of software was made
available on BBSes etc, with source.
open source open source open source open source open source open source
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-23 20:39 [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-24 7:42 ` Preben Randhol
2004-03-24 17:37 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-24 10:08 ` Preben Randhol
2004-03-24 13:01 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-28 15:38 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-03-28 22:10 ` tmoran [this message]
2004-03-29 12:16 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-29 13:08 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-29 14:02 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-31 7:35 ` David Starner
2004-03-31 11:27 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistentuntyped graphs) Marius Amado Alves
2004-03-30 2:46 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs) Stephen Leake
2004-03-30 11:54 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-30 15:07 ` Licensing issues Florian Weimer
2004-03-30 17:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-03-31 0:07 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-04-03 17:10 ` Florian Weimer
2004-03-31 7:36 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs) David Starner
2004-03-31 12:27 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-31 14:16 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-04-01 16:48 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped Robert I. Eachus
2004-03-30 18:53 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-03-31 12:31 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-29 0:45 ` Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untypedgraphs) Marius Amado Alves
2004-04-01 17:09 ` Licensing issues Jacob Sparre Andersen
[not found] ` <200403241301.01079.maa@liacc.up.pt>
2004-03-24 19:27 ` [Announce] Mneson Manual Marius Amado Alves
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