[Foresight-devel] Re: Forums Update

[Stephanie Watson]

It is open source... the source is open for viewing and modification, and
project owners welcome anyone to participate in the project and submit
patches.  They just ask, as those who operate under GPL, that individuals
redistribute it under the terms of the license.  Are you saying there is
more to "open source" than opening the source for others to customize for
their own use?

-Stef



On 2/28/08, Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:28:56AM -0600, Paul Cutler wrote:
> > we're going to go with SMF.
> > 1. It's open source and Jive isn't.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:12:08PM -0500, Stephanie Watson wrote:
> > We are fine for using it without any permission, but I had to obtain
> > permission to make the software itself available for download from a
> > site other than their own
>
>
> then that's not open source.
>
>
> this is not addressed to stephanie or paul but everyone:
>
> please do not claim that someting is open source when it really is not.
> open source, just like free software has a clear definition (and they
> are almost the same and include the right to free redistribution with
> modifications)
>
> calling something open source when it is not only serves to confuse
> people and helps those that try to take advantage of such a confusion.
>
> note that simple machines does not claim that smf would be open source.
>
>
> greetings, martin.
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