Re: WineX and the AFPL

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And also, consider that if they are even remotely considering inserting
other 'requirements', like the "no-binaries" restriction, I doubt it would
meet even SourceForges criteria :p

 - Ender


On Thu, 30 May 2002, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 08:33:07 +0200
> From: Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Alexandre Julliard <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Subject: Re: WineX and the AFPL
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:38:32AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > But, there are other projects out there are under the aladdin free
> > public license, and they are certainly still considered open source
> > projects, for example Ghostscript...
>
> The only reason Ghostscript is considered Open Source (and free
> software) is that versions that are not the most current one are
> released under the GPL, and will continue to be.
>
> So, GNU Ghostscript is Open Source and Free Software. AFPL Ghostscript
> is _not_.
>
> --
> Lionel
>
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