The Rails Wheels licencing system and Open Source

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Thu Sep 4 01:38:22 UTC 2008


Mark Reginald James writes:
 > I'd appreciate some help assessing the compatibility of
 > the Rails Wheels licencing system with the OSI definition
 > of Open Source.

Completely incompatible, sorry.  I appreciate that you're trying to do
a good thing.  You can do it, and it may be a success.  But it won't
be Open Source.

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