24 Aug
2006
24 Aug
'06
8:43 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 18:17 -0400, Rob wrote:
On Thu August 24 2006 15:53, Lee Revell wrote:
Wasn't "open source" already in vernacular use before the OSI
trademarked it?
Lee
Yes, it is open source (the source is avaliable -
QED). It's
not GPL or free software.
1. Linuxsampler is not "open source" any more than Microsoft's
"shared source" initiative releases "open source" software. The
term "open source" is a trademark of the Open Source Initiative,
and as regards software licenses, it may only be used to refer
to licenses conforming to the Open Source Definition created by
OSI. Linuxsampler doesn't conform, because of section 6 in the
OSD: