[OT] What is Open Source?

[Anthony_Barker]

For me open source is simply the ability to "look under the hood" of
any program.
Almost every other type of human endevor allows this. 

David: What do you think of a open source license similar to what
books or other  types of media have?

1) the source is open
2) any derivative works must be open
3) any derivative works that are for educational or non-profit are
allowed
4) derivative works that are used for a profit or that substatially
harm the ability of the original work to produce a profit are not
allowed

This is from the Fair Use provision is in the Copyright Act,

more info:
http://www.benedict.com

Anthony

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mertz at gnosis.cx (David Mertz, Ph.D.) wrote in message news:<mailman.1018897470.30703.python-list at python.org>...
> |Do you think the set of "open source software" as defined by OSI and the
> |set of "free software" as defined by FSF are
> |1) the same set,
> |2) two different sets,
> |3) none of the above;
> 
> Well, both the OSI and the FSF are quite unambiguous in stating that
> these are two different sets.
> 
> And both groups are equally unambiguous in stating that there is a lot
> of overlap between the sets.  And moreover, the FSF is awfully clear in
> stating exactly what they don't like about the set of things that are
> Open Source but not Free Software (i.e. exactly the same the same thing
> they don't like about all non-Free software).
> 
> It is somewhat up-in-the-air whether the set of Open Source Software is
> a strict superset of Free Software.  At the least, Open Source includes
> generally more software, and -very nearly- all software that is Free
> Software is also Open Source Software.
> 
> There is nothing very difficult (and nothing -at all- ambiguous) in
> here.  However, it *IS* true--as with any area of human cognition--that
> there are people who fail to understand the categories.  Big deal.  Some
> people are wrong, and some things are so.
> 
> Yours, David...