On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:08:05 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org said:
On 18-Feb-07, at 1:14 AM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
- why dont you stick to GPL'd software
Why should I do so? As far as I am concerned, Zope and Python are both released under free software licenses. The GPL is not the only free software license around. Here is something for you: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
ever heard of the tail attempting to wag the dog? This is an apt description of the FS movement. The OSS movement started as a reaction to the extremism of the FS movement and conciously decided to remove the 'F' in an attempt to reach a wider audience - and they succeeded. So the FS movement, unable to prevent this, attempts to hitch themselves to it by rechristening it as Free Software. Zope and Python and Postgres and Apache and thousands of others do *not* consider themselves Free Software. They consider themselves OSS. Similarly, the only Linux that considers itself GNU/Linux is Debian. All the other distros consider themselves Linux. Time you guys got real and respected the opinions of others.
You are revising history here a bit. The OSS folks did not want to change the basic philosophy as much as market it to the suits better. Indeed, the open source definition started off as a close of the DFSG -- but the word "Free" was removed to make it more palatable to the business people.
They were careful to not actually change the requisite freedoms. And, really, I think most people do not consider hte software covered by the terms as distinct -- same software, different terms used by people to describe it, albeit with slightly different philosophical goals.
manoj who was there when the open source stuff was launched