The Rails Wheels licencing system and Open Source

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Thu Sep 4 13:59:53 UTC 2008


Mark James writes:
 > I'll still use either "open-source" or "exposed-source" to describe
 > free access to source code, preferring the latter due to the high
 > change of ambiguity. ("Open-source spec software" likewise.)

I recommend the term "Source Available"; it doesn't imply any
permission to do anything with the source.

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