OSD #2 (was Re: GPL vs APSL (was: YAPL is bad))

[Rick Moen]

begin Greg London quotation:

> I am saying the MIT license does not meet OSD #2.  Since OSD #2 says
> "the program MUST include source code" There is nothing in the MIT
> license to guarantee OSD#2, so it fails to meet the definition.

Ahem.  Nostalgic for freshman philosophy?

It would be physically possible to issue a binary without source
and claim it to be under the MIT licence, but nobody would be
particularly impressed, let alone call that open source.

I should point out that the OSD is not intended to be an AI routine,
just a set of guidelines that can be understood by reasonable people.
In practice, the Board is there, in part, to say "Very creative, and 
certainly a nice try, but of course the answer is no."

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