[oclug]Open Source terminology

[Dave Edwards]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 06:47, Milan Budimirovic wrote:

> 
> I know of only two meaningful forms of the term. One is the generic
> "open source", which means nothing more than "the user has access to the
> source code", and can often apply to proprietary software. The other
> form is the capitalized "Open Source", which means basically what Eric
> Raymond and the OSI say it soes. See:
> 
>   http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

I've never heard the term used to denote simple availability of source
code, but I suppose it could be.  Also, I had not noticed the
distinction between the term capitalized and not; the OSI site itself
uses the term without initial caps on its home page:  "Open source
software is an idea whose time has finally come."  

It's important to note we users of OSS should not recognize as open
source software that which simply has available source code.  There are
a number of licenses that are approved and which meet the definition
(which is a slightly modified version of the Debian Free Software
Guidelines), and products that do so may bear the OSI certification
mark.

Dave.
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