Hi,
On 2/18/07, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On 18-Feb-07, at 11:37 AM, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
All the other distros consider themselves Linux. Time you guys got real and respected the opinions of others.
You are revising history here a bit. The OSS folks did notwant to change the basic philosophy as much as market it to the suits better. Indeed, the open source definition started off as a close of the DFSG -- but the word "Free" was removed to make it more palatable to the business people.
They were careful to not actually change the requisitefreedoms. And, really, I think most people do not consider hte software covered by the terms as distinct -- same software, different terms used by people to describe it, albeit with slightly different philosophical goals.
i would say the major difference is the absence of copyleft in OSS
What OSS definition you are talking about? Yours? Or as defined by Open Source Initiative ? Or is it politically neutral enough to include the term Free as in Freedom?
Did you read what copyleft meant? Please stop spreading FUD and do some research before issuing such vague and confusing statements.
Copy- pasting from: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
``Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.''
Now I don't understand what it means to make a false claim that ``major difference is the absence of copyleft in OSS''. There might be some Open Source licenses that are not Free Software license or vice versa because the organisation behind them work independent of each other, have different goals and philosophies. Considering your statement, can I say that GNU GPL certified by Open Source Initiative as Open Source license or to be concise an OSS license is not copylefted. (Which is certainly false.) Please stop spreading FUD or do proper research before making such claims or go on redefining everything you seem to care about and advocate it with logic and philosophies pioneers of Free Software Movement have done with so much pain for last 24 years. For now I would like to ignore your all subsequent replies.
Regards Nikhil Prabhakar