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

Alex Rousskov rousskov at measurement-factory.com
Thu May 6 22:06:05 UTC 2004


On Thu, 6 May 2004, Guilherme C. Hazan wrote:

> 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

Only if you also distribute some software, to some users, under OSI
license, I guess. I do not see a direct answer to your question in
http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.php#marking
since it only talks about software distros, not web sites.

Alex.
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