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

Michelle Heizer wrote:

>Martin Bähr wrote:
>  
>
>>http://www.magnolia.info/en/magnolia/products/faq.html#IsthesourcecodefortheEnterpriseEd
>>  Is the source code for the Enterprise Edition available?
>>
>>  Most of the code of the Enterprise Edition is open-sourced and available
>>  in the Community Edition. The Enterprise Edition ships with additional
>>  features not found in the Community Edition and is licensed via the
>>  "Magnolia Visible Source" license. The visible-source license allows you
>>  to modify the Enterprise Edition for your own use, but disallows
>>  distribution or deployment of the binary.
>>
>>this violates free redistribution, and hence this license is not
>>free software nor open source.
>>    
>>
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>I disagree that this means the software is not open source. We can argue
>the semantics of the term "open source" all day, but a definition does
>not hold up in court if it is ever challenged. Every person or
>organization can come up with their own definition of open source, but
>that doesn't give it any legal weight. What does hold up in court is the
>license the software is released under. Let's be clear. There are many
>open source licenses available, including a developer's own license (as
>it appears in the case of this software).
>  
>

well, OSCOM decided some time ago to accept the OSI definition, which is 
clear.
So I don't see any reason to argue what open means. You might
want to argue if it makes sense to base the definition on the OSI
definition, but that would be another discussion and maybe people
here want to change this decision. But for the moment it seems
to be very clear: The Magnolia Visible license is not OSI compliant
and hence does not belong here.

Michi

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