Re: Drop DFSG in favour of OSD?
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> > Actually, it probably would be appropriate to have a document which
> > discusses some of the more prominent hstory (and successes) behind
> > "open source". I think Debian, Cygnus, GNU, the FSF and rms all deserve
> > explicit mention (chronological order is roughly the revers of what I've
> > listed).
>
> Righto. I just meant in the "what do we call our DFSG now that somebody's
> changed the name" ... we keep calling them DFSG with the note that the
> Open Source guidelines are the same but renamed.
Open Source guidelines are, by historic necessity, derived from the DFSG.
This is not a chicken or egg problem, DGSG is the original work, OSG is a
derived work, and should carry an indication that this is the case.
>
> I suppose that if Open Source really takes off I'll vote for just
> dropping the DFSG name entirely eventually, just because having seventeen
> sets of standards which are all the same is silly, and I'd rather bite
> the bullet and use somebody else's name than have nobody understand DFSG.
>
Whether Open Source "really takes off" or not is really not the issue. The
issue is, how close are the two guidelines going to be in the future? It
must be understood that the two "standards" are different in fundamental
goals. The Open Source movement is a commercial one, Debian is not. That
distinction alone should keep these two documents seperate.
Waiting is,
Dwarf
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