Introduction
Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:
1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
2. Source Code
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost-preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
7. Distribution of License
The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution.
9. The License Must Not Restrict Other Software
The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.
10. No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.
This is just plain dumb. There are Europeans, like myself, who would like to work in the US, and there are Americans that would like to work in Europe, but our governments make things difficult.
Maybe there could be some kind of job swap web site, people from different continents find each other, with similar skills, and offer to swap places. It would need government support, which means it probably would not work.
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Add your travel plans to the wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Transport
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What did they give for a reason?
Here are some Debian geolocation links for you:
Sell your used software on eBay.
Yes, I know it is the same as a comment I posted on another article, whatever.
This guy really knows what he is talking about.
This guy really knows what he is talking about.
I recommend you read Telecosm: The World After Bandwidth Abundance by George Gilder.
What term do you suggest we use?
Introduction
Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:
1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
2. Source Code
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost-preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
7. Distribution of License
The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution.
9. The License Must Not Restrict Other Software
The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.
10. No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.
Hey, yes! Of course, you are right.
Wonder what license the book is under.
I thought that RMS was boycotting Amazon.com because they support software patents. If so how come his new book Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams is listed there?
I guess he does not not get to decide that kind of thing.Weren't Sun and AOL going to work together? Where does this leave them?
I did not say don't try.
Just said it won't work.
PS - WTF is this:
Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
It's been 15 seconds since you hit 'reply'!
If it did work, somebody would have done it by now.
Java tried it, failed.
Netscape tried, failed.
The pictures of war are crap.
We want proper 24 hour War Television.
Small unmanned helicopters, lots of cameras, be able to get some great footage for news services.
We want 3D Matrix style, Bullet Time, spin-around, video of buildings being blown-up.
Here is an extract from the book.
The BBC is running a 4 part series, and they have a web site .
Sorry about that, I changed the colours, should make it easier to read.
Read the comments in the code.
Reason I include the UK centre of mass is because I am British.
This is just plain dumb. There are Europeans, like myself, who would like to work in the US, and there are Americans that would like to work in Europe, but our governments make things difficult.
Maybe there could be some kind of job swap web site, people from different continents find each other, with similar skills, and offer to swap places. It would need government support, which means it probably would not work.
URLs?
But who is the other one?