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Macromedia Applies For OSI Certification
mpawlo writes "As reported by Greplaw, Macromedia, the company behind Flash-technology and more, has applied for open source certification of one of its licenses. The Macromedia license is based on the IBM Public License.
You can see the
Application for certification as well as the
The Macromedia licence."
Macromedia should be made to donate a hundred million dollars to the development of Linux and its various programs before they're given the priviledge of calling any of their stuff "open source" because back in the day, when Linux was new, they didn't bother supporting Linux. But now that other people have made Linux a success, without their help, Macromedia expects to profit off this for free or something. So they should have to pay for it.
Other than that, it's cool that they want to call themselves part of the open source community. Ooooooooh well.
> The acid test of any license is whether it's DFSG free
The OSI definition is the same as Debian's. Welcome to the Open Source world. Please refrain from posting in our forums. Thank you.
> while passing the OSI open-source definition is not actually Free Software
Of course it isn't. Open Source and Free Software are two entirely different things. They're not applying for Stallman's holy blessing, just for Open Source certification. See welcome message and instructions above.