OSL 1.1 treatment of documentation

Forrest J. Cavalier III mibsoft at mibsoftware.com
Wed Oct 30 17:53:50 UTC 2002


Lawrence E. Rosen" <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote in part:

> > > 3) Grant of Source Code License. The term "Source Code" means the 
> > > preferred form of the Original Work for making 
> > modifications to it and 
> > > all available documentation describing how to access and modify the 
> > > Original Work.
> > 
> > "access" is not well-defined.
> > 
> > Is your intent to compel book publishers to give away the
> > text of their books written for users of the Work?
> 
> No, and I don't think the word "access" conveys that meaning.
> 

"accessed" appears in OSL 1.1 paragraph 5.  And it
seems that "use" is different than "access."  Can
you explain what you meant in each paragraph?


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