Re: [OSCOM] ANN: Magnolia 3.0 Simple Enterprise Content Management released

Andreas Hartmann wrote:

>Michelle Heizer wrote:
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>>Martin Bähr wrote:
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>>>i am interrested in free software and free software only,
>>>i have been making a living working with free software for more than 10
>>>years, so i really do not need anyone to tell me how they can't make a
>>>living with free software. i simply do not care.
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>>Sorry, but open source does not mean that it is free.
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>http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
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>"The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the
>software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing
>programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a
>royalty or other fee for such sale."
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>As I understand this, (according to this definition) open source
>implicates free availability. Or am I getting this wrong?
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AFAIK selling doesn't contradict open source, e.g.
one can say if you want to use my open source within
a commercial environment then you need to pay, see for instance
MySQL (dual-licensed). Of course a lot of people download it and
don't pay even if they should.

But this doesn't seem to be the case here. If I understand Boris 
correctly then
he is saying one can see the code only if one pays, but then this is not
open source anymore at least from the OSI point of view.

A lot of proprietary vendors are doing this in order to give the one
who is buying the software some trust or sometimes they don't show the code
but put it into a key-escrow account in case the company goes down the 
toilet
or whatever might happen.

Michi

>Thanks,
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>-- Andreas
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