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

Fabian Bastin fabian.bastin at math.fundp.ac.be
Thu May 6 21:42:29 UTC 2004


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.

Fabian

Guilherme C. Hazan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>The paragraphs you seem to be referring to are not licenses. They only
>>refer to OSL and ESL licenses.
> 
> 
> What does OSL and ESL stands for?
> 
> thx
> 
>     guich
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