OSI approved?

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Apr 22 11:26:31 UTC 2002


On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:

> Just noted that the "Squeak" project on SF has "License: OSI Approved".
> Eh, what does that mean? AFAIK SqueakL has not been approved by OSI.

They don't offer a generic "open source" licence, so this was the most
matching term. When the SF site was started it seemed like a better choice
than "propriatary license".  See
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=13

Also, only platform support code ist hosted at SF. For example, the Unix
VM comes with a mixed license:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/squeak/squeak/platforms/unix/misc/COPYING?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
I'm not sure about other platforms.

-- Bert




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