For Approval: Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, v1.0
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Feb 21 13:28:34 UTC 2009
Thorsten Glaser writes:
> A BSD licenced work where you do not (yet) have the source code of
> also comes under an OSD conformant licence, it’s just not OSI Approved
> Open Source Software™ until you actually get the source code.
You need to learn to read between the lines better. Some things are
implicit, e.g. where it says in the OSD "Ah pity da foo' who doesn't
ship source code and claims that his software is open source."
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