Re: Re: zoe license & creative commons

Zoe wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes, but if you actually want people to follow your newer license you 
shouldn't indicate that it is open source.  People may likely use it 
commercially (against your wishes) thinking it open source.

Since you went through the trouble of giving it a license you may as 
well make it clear.

-- 
Steve Mallett
http://steve.osdir.com

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