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Macromedia Applies For OSI Certification

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-will-they-release dept.

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."

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  1. Acid test by AirLace · · Score: 4, Informative

    The acid test of any license is whether it's DFSG free and can thus be included in Debian, Mandrake and other Free Software distributions. Groups like Apple and the DivX team have been known to release purportedly "open source" software under look-but-don't-touch style licenses. Of note is the Darwin Streaming Server from Apple which, while passing the OSI open-source definition is not actually Free Software because it demands that you hand over all changes even if you don't distribute the software (you can see why this is a crazy notion).

    Nevertheless, Macromedia has some cool technologies and I can see them being widely implemented if there are truly free and complete implementations.