UnitedLinux and "open source"

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Fri Jun 14 20:48:04 UTC 2002


Russell Nelson scripsit:

> Here's what I call free software:
>   If you can get the source code, AND
>   If you can make any changes you want to the source, AND

Not even the MIT or new-BSD licenses allow that: some parts of
the source have to remain invariant.

>   If you can create binaries, AND
>   If you can redistribute your changes and binaries, THEN

Under a license of your choice, you mean?

>   It's free software.
 
-- 
John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth.com>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
--
license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3



More information about the License-discuss mailing list