Re: A Gentle Introduction to the Squeak Community

On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:29 pm, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> Who cares about OSI?  Just leave it at "Sq is an open-source
> system.", or keep the original wording: "Not only is all source
> code included and changeable at will, it is also completely open
> and free."  Screw the rest. The OSI don't have any kind of
> inalienable right to `magically bless' software.

I have to agree. We have to ask ourselves:

* to whom are we speaking?

To folks new to Squeak.

* why are we saying this?

To let them know what kind of community and expectations there are 
around Squeak.

* what kind of detail do we need to go into here?

Not much. We should provide a link to the actual text of the license 
and leave it at the original wording.

* to whom would it matter whether RMS would call Squeak Open Source?

I'm not sure. Perhaps to people wanting to incorporate Squeak into 
some OSI-blessed distribution? By the time they get to that point, 
though, they'd have already read the Squeak License and become more 
familiar with Squeak.

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