Why "open-source" means "free to distribute"?

Guilherme C. Hazan palm-experts at superwaba.com.br
Thu May 6 21:51:49 UTC 2004


Hi,

> Just read carefully their page:
> http://www.gluecode.com/website/html/prod_licensing.htm
>
> ESL: Enterprise Source License
>
> OSL: OEM Source License
>
> None is an OSI approved license. In particular, the Enterprise Source
> License is certainly not open-source since it does not allow to
> distribute modified versions.
>
> It is not the first time that the term "open-source" in used with a
> different meaning of the OSI definition.

Sure, but why the OSI logo at the main page???

Can i also create a license that is not OSI and place the logo at the main
page? That could make my users happy. ;-D

guich

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