Apple is clearly abusing the Open Source name by calling the APSL Open Source when it clearly violates the spirit of Open Source. Before this you could make a case that the APSL followed the letter of the Open Source Definition. Now, however, the author points out that Cubans are discriminated against by the license itself, making the APSL fail even the letter of the current form of the license!
I'm not sure that it is legal to export the software to Germany (assuming they don't have an embargo), modify it, then export that software to Cuba, but the license would prohibit this regardless.
It would be interesting to see Eric Raymond's response to this, as he is the one who claims that the APSL is Open Source. But why dump on Apple? Simple, if they make a mockery of Open Source (and they are, as their license contains so many conditions, you might as well be another employee of Apple), then other companies will surely try the same shennanigans, or worse!
If they didn't call it Open Source, then I would have absolutely no problem with it. But it's the abuse of the name that gets me fired up.
I'm not sure if someone in Pakistan giving the software to Bin Laden would be "good", but the license prohibits this, and the OSD requires the license to allow this. Even if it said "if you are a Resident of the United States" that would still be discriminatory even though it would have no effect!
So much for my claims that it is Open Source. Using U.S. FTP sites I see this so much I take it for granted.
Can we just say the APSL is crap and Not Good Enough(tm) for the Open Source community?
Just create a new one. I used to be Mr. Piccolo, but the system won't accept that name anymore:-/... DARN SPACE ALIENS!
Hopefully Commander Taco will have things back to (ab)normal Real Soon Now...:-)
BTW, I just want to say that the Comment Threshold won't work that well because comments inside threads always seem to stay at 1 or 0, and never get any higher.
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Great, we get neutrons. yippee.
What is the average consumer going to do woth neutrons? I don't think it'll make computers faster or software smaller or less buggy.
Apple is clearly abusing the Open Source name by calling the APSL Open Source when it clearly violates the spirit of Open Source. Before this you could make a case that the APSL followed the letter of the Open Source Definition. Now, however, the author points out that Cubans are discriminated against by the license itself, making the APSL fail even the letter of the current form of the license!
I'm not sure that it is legal to export the software to Germany (assuming they don't have an embargo), modify it, then export that software to Cuba, but the license would prohibit this regardless.
It would be interesting to see Eric Raymond's response to this, as he is the one who claims that the APSL is Open Source. But why dump on Apple? Simple, if they make a mockery of Open Source (and they are, as their license contains so many conditions, you might as well be another employee of Apple), then other companies will surely try the same shennanigans, or worse!
If they didn't call it Open Source, then I would have absolutely no problem with it. But it's the abuse of the name that gets me fired up.
How true; everyone knows Hot Dog Stand is 10x better than Lemonade Stand. :-)
I'm not sure if someone in Pakistan giving the software to Bin Laden would be "good", but the license prohibits this, and the OSD requires the license to allow this. Even if it said "if you are a Resident of the United States" that would still be discriminatory even though it would have no effect!
So much for my claims that it is Open Source. Using U.S. FTP sites I see this so much I take it for granted.
Can we just say the APSL is crap and Not Good Enough(tm) for the Open Source community?
Just create a new one. I used to be Mr. Piccolo, but the system won't accept that name anymore :-/... DARN SPACE ALIENS!
:-)
Hopefully Commander Taco will have things back to (ab)normal Real Soon Now...
BTW, I just want to say that the Comment Threshold won't work that well because comments inside threads always seem to stay at 1 or 0, and never get any higher.