Philip wrote:
Sometime Today, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say:
Open source software is different from traditional software in that it holds no secrets -- the software's 'source code' is free for the end user to examine, modify, or build on. With traditional
Not true. Open source simply gives you access to the source code. It makes no provision for the modification or redistribution of that code. Free software gives you that freedom.
Not true!
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html
<start quote> 3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
Rationale: The mere ability to read source isn't enough to support independent peer review and rapid evolutionary selection. For rapid evolution to happen, people need to be able to experiment with and redistribute modifications.
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Sameer.
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