<IMHO>

My own issues with the OSD are that they confuse Open with Free. Open means (to me) that the code can be inspected and modified. Free (as in beer) means (again, to me) that you are not charged a fee for it. Free (as in speech) means (still, to me) that no one can stop you from Saying it (ie, redistributing). Section 1 is incompatible with Open (my definition) code that is not Free (costs money/not redistributable).

For myself, I choose licenses on my own work as I see fit, often from the Creative Commons license generator. Some of those are compatible with the OSD, some are not. If it won't meet SourceForge's terms of service ... announce it on Freshmeat instead, which provides less, but restricts less.

</IMHO>

BTW, the company for which I work is Open but not Free by the above definitions. So this isn't just Ivory Tower semantics, this is a thriving business model.

If anyone needs me I'll be in the Angry Dome.

In reply to Re: Licensing Revisited ... again and again. by idsfa
in thread Licensing Revisited ... again and again. by Intrepid

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