Definition of Open Source [was Re: pine: UW permission to distribute]

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Jul 20 19:52:58 UTC 2004


Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 11:34, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> 
>>Indeed I cannot find an official definition of the term Open Source as
>>used for the Fedora Project on the Fedora Red Hat pages or on the Fedora
>>US pages. It is probably a good idea to make explicit which definition
>>is used.
> 
> 
> We have discussed in the past using the intersection of the open source
> definition from opensource.org and the free software definition from
> gnu.org, which means "only software the two major definitions agree is
> open/free"

Thank you Havoc, that's exactly what I've been asking for.  I would say 
this should be reflected on fedora.redhat.com somewhere.

It is now clear to me that pine has no place in Fedora Core/Extras. 
I'll see about publishing it on rpm.livna.org instead.

-- Rex





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