From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2004-01-01T12:23:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Good article on Open Source, GPL, copyright, etc.

Thanks for the excellent reference.

I have a question:

The article says that Free Software is a proper subset of Open Source 
software.

By looking at the definitions, I can see that they are not the same.  But 
I'm having trouble figuring out how one could write a license that fits 
the OSI definition but not  the FSF definition?

Mark says that the difference lies in license compatibility, but I don't 
quite see it.

Can anyone think of a license condition that would be ok for OSI but not 
for FSF?


Once again, thanks for this link.  This article is quite clear and 
complete.

Happy New Year!
Daniel.


On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:41:44AM +0900, Tim Hunter wrote:
> There is periodically some discussion on c.l.r. about Open Source
> licensing, the GPL, and copyrights, so I thought some readers would be
> interested in reading a good overview of these topics which is now
> appearing on the ever-popular Groklaw (www.groklaw.net) blog: "What Is
> Open Source Software?," by Mark Webbink, Senior V.P. and General Counsel
> of Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> We now return you to your normal programming...

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