"Our current license is not OSI-approved, nor have we ever claimed it is. But it is open source."
Now, this is the same species of weasel wording as "undocumented immigrant." Putting it this way makes it sound like the license is fine, but just happens not to have been approved by those bearded elitists at OSI.
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humaneasy
17 years 16 weeks 9 hours 44 min ago
I said that years ago related to
I said that years ago related to the Open Source license made by OSI Codes (http://www.osicodes.com/) for its applications. They even called themselves "Open Source Industry Codes".
If you read it. Yes! The code is yours to change... but, oops! You loose the upgrading even if you have to pay for it year after year in order to use it.
@ http://www.osicodes.com/web/la_view.php?license=la_standard
Read 1.A and then 4.B. What a fake and misleading promise.
Same with Kayako products and a ton others out there.
Nothing new there...
Same with Free Software that many think it should mean Gratis Software and not Software with Freedoms.
mattflaschen
17 years 16 weeks 8 hours 54 min ago
Humaneasy, what about 1B: "You
Humaneasy, what about 1B: "You may not copy the Software for DISTRIBUTION or RESELL in any way." That clearly isn't FOSS.