Updated license - please comment

[Mark Rafn]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Christophe Dupre wrote:

> Hello Mark,
> I've just re-read the OSD document, and I'm not sure we read the same 
> one. You claim that 2a and 2d are unacceptable and violate OSD#3.
> OSD#3 is not violated: you can change the code, you can distribute those 
> modifications. #3 doesn't say that it needs to be completely 
> unrestricted. In particular, anyone could decide to fork the code and 
> maintain their own tree.

Only if their fork is still a software library.  Nobody can fork it to 
become an application.  Defining "software library" becomes tricky, and 
it's unclear whether it can be forked to become a Mozilla plugin, for 
example.

Would code that allowed modification only if the result was "A Microsoft 
Windows Application" be considered open source?  That allows most 
modifications too.
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