Re: zoe license & creative commons

On Jan 31, 2005, at 02:42, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> Amongst software people anyway the locution "open source" is more or 
> less equivalent to "OSI approved".  Even Microsoft and Sun don't call 
> their non-OSI approved viewable source licenses "open source", opting 
> for "shared source" and "community source" instead.

Ok. I'm neither Microsoft nor Sun.

> Of course you can say whatever you want on your webpages.

Ok. So this is mostly a storm in a tea cup then?

>   Seems misleading to me though.
>
> Regarding your other email, Kragen's a friend.  He mentioned ZOE/CC 
> by-nc/open source to me as he knows I work for Creative Commons.

Cheers,

R.



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