[Fwd: FW: For Approval: Generic Attribution Provision]

Scythereal scythereal at bitmeta.org
Thu Jan 4 03:07:47 UTC 2007


Ironically, those are the principles the open source idea is against.

On 1 Jan 2007 12:22:43 -0500, Osi <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
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>
> >From: Craig Muth  <craig.mu at gmail.com>
> >If we're talking about projects whose source is open - for
> >downloading, modifying, redistributing, and selling - and assuming
> >they get their license to reasonably conform to the OSD, who are
> >we to say it's not open source?
>
> We are the Open Source Initiative.  We created the term, we created the
> goodwill behind the term, and it is very much our job to say what is and
> what is not Open Source.
>
> That's who we are.
>
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