Re: Drop DFSG in favour of OSD?
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 11:13:00AM +0100, Marco Budde wrote:
> Am 22.05.98 schrieb jim # jimpick.com ...
>
> Moin Jim!
>
> JP> Wouldn't it make more sense if we no longer refer to our licensing
> JP> guidelines as the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), and instead
> JP> choose to call them the "Open Source Definition" (OSD)? They are the
>
> Why should we do that? I don#t like Open Source, because for example Qt
> comes with open source, but would you call it free software?
Qt is *not* Open Source (insert whichever funny symbol here). This is
one of the advantages, I think of 'open source'. Legally, they cannot
use that name in association with their product:-)
Ciao,
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