3 Sep 12:36
Re: Open Software Service Definition
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@...>
Subject: Re: Open Software Service Definition
Newsgroups: gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general
Date: 2008-09-03 10:36:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Open Software Service Definition
Newsgroups: gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general
Date: 2008-09-03 10:36:03 GMT
Dave Crossland dixit: >Referring to approved license lists is unambiguous. When writing a >definition that depends on other definitions, it is good to limit >ambiguity. 1) The OSI list of approved licences is not a definition. The OSD is. 2) You have to weigh between ambiguity and the OSI's _admitted_ and _willingly_ done discrimination against licences with less (or less well-known) "community" (users, licence writers, etc). I for one would advise to not follow OSI's discriminatory actions. //mirabilos -- -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"
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