[ppc-mobo] Re: GNU License for Hardware

Hartmut Koptein Hartmut.Koptein at t-online.de
Tue Oct 12 20:11:21 UTC 1999


> As co-instigator of "Open Source" and the person who originaly announced
> it to the net and wrote most of the Open Source definition, I definitely

... and some other peoples :-)

> have mixed feelings on the subject. In my mind, "Open Source" was meant
> to be a gentle introduction to free software with less rhetoric and more
> demonstration of practical benefit.  But the Open Source Definition is
> a definition of Free Software, and was never meant to be anything else.

Yes, as an really open license and not what other companies think about
'Open' (as Sun, ...). 

Greetings,



    Hartmut



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