Please add "Public Domain" to "license" list
David A. Wheeler
david_a_wheeler at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 16 21:45:23 UTC 2003
--- 'Rick Moen' <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting David A. Wheeler (dwheeler at dwheeler.com):
>
> > All I'm looking for a clear statement from the OSI that
> > public domain source code is open source software.
>
> I'm not sure this is the OSI's problem. Think about process, and
> what the OSI actually _does_, and I think you'll see this.
The OSI examines the conditions of software releases, to determine
if they meet the open source definition. I've provided a release
situation that I believe meets the open source definition, and am
asking the OSI to publicly state that the release conditions meet
the OSD. It's not a traditional license, but in 1984 the GPL
wasn't a traditional license either :-).
> > Are you saying that US government software released to the software
> > cannot be used as open source software?
>
> Of course not. I believe I've already said the contrary.
And I very much appreciate it. What I want is a PUBLIC statement
from the OSI that this is true.
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