project "squeak" on sourceforge.net
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel at merlintec.com
Tue Aug 24 23:52:55 UTC 2004
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 16:41, Frantisek Fuka wrote:
> So www.squeak.org is wrong when it says "Squeak comes under an open
> source license ..." ???
It is correct. Note that it doesn't say "Open Source license" (with
capital letters) since Open Source is a trademark of OSI (I think - it
isn't clear on http://opensource.org/trademarks/) and they have a set
of rules that licenses which they certify must follow. The Squeak
License has export restrictions, which is not allowed by rule 5 (see
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php).
But anyone saying that Squeak is not "open source" or "free software" in
the generic sense is just being silly or ignorant.
-- Jecel
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