"Our current license is not OSI-approved, nor have we ever claimed it is. But it is open source."
Now, this is the same species of weasel wording as "undocumented immigrant." Putting it this way makes it sound like the license is fine, but just happens not to have been approved by those bearded elitists at OSI.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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humaneasy
4 years 47 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago
I said that years ago related to
I said that years ago related to the Open Source license made by OSI Codes (http://www.osicodes.com/) for its applications. They even called themselves "Open Source Industry Codes".
If you read it. Yes! The code is yours to change... but, oops! You loose the upgrading even if you have to pay for it year after year in order to use it.
@ http://www.osicodes.com/web/la_view.php?license=la_standard
Read 1.A and then 4.B. What a fake and misleading promise.
Same with Kayako products and a ton others out there.
Nothing new there...
Same with Free Software that many think it should mean Gratis Software and not Software with Freedoms.
mattflaschen
4 years 47 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago
Humaneasy, what about 1B: "You
Humaneasy, what about 1B: "You may not copy the Software for DISTRIBUTION or RESELL in any way." That clearly isn't FOSS.