EU Copyright..

Georg C. F. Greve greve at gnu.org
Wed May 1 13:19:29 UTC 2002


 || On Wed, 01 May 2002 12:52:11 +0100
 || "Richard Smedley" <richard.smedley at futurenet.co.uk> wrote: 

 rs> Open Source suggests that you may (under certain conditions) have
 rs> access to (some of) the Source (code).

This is indeed a valid interpretation of the term.


Also common is "Open Source as in the Open Source Definition" by Bruce
Perens, which is essentially identical to the "Debian Free Software
Guidelines."

This OSD was part of the (failed) attempt to create a marketing
program for Free Software under the name "Open Source."

More information can always be found at

 http://fsfeurope.org/documents/freesoftware.html
 http://fsfeurope.org/documents/whyfs.en.html

and of course on

 http://www.gnu.org


Regards,
Georg

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