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

[Alex Rousskov]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Fabian Bastin wrote:

> 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.

We do not know what OEM Source License is. It could be a BSD license,
for example (simply renamed for whatever reason).

> In particular, the Enterprise Source
> License is certainly not open-source

That much we do know.

Alex.

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