Valhalla Legends Forums Archive | General Discussion | Poll: Definition of Open Source

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Myndfyr
We've been arguing about this on the Bnet bot dev forum for a while -- I'd like to see what everyone says about this. :)

[edit]Changed the subject :) [/edit]
March 3, 2004, 3:29 AM
K
[quote author=Myndfyre link=board=2;threadid=5554;start=0#msg47183 date=1078284568]
We've been arguing about this on the Bnet bot dev forum for a while -- I'd like to see what everyone says about this. :)
[/quote]

Well, off the top of my head... :P
March 3, 2004, 3:56 AM
Kp
"No license required" sounds like public domain. Being open source and being public domain are not mutually exclusive, but they are also not the same thing.
March 4, 2004, 12:28 AM
UserLoser.
Publically viewable
March 4, 2004, 12:49 AM
crashtestdummy
"Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001)"
open source n. common; also adj. `open-source' Term coined in March
1998 following the Mozilla release to describe software distributed in
source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify,
and redistribute, the code. The intent was to be able to sell the
hackers' ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by
avoiding the negative connotations (to suits) of the term "free
software". For discussion of the follow-on tactics and their
consequences, see the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org)
site.
March 4, 2004, 2:08 AM

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