Hi Dean, On 9/22/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, then make certain "standards" regarding the contents of the softare licenses and not the type of license the software comes in. It shouldn't matter that it's a FOSS license which the OSI determines, or a license that simply allows the government to use the software and modify it so long as the government doesn't transfer the redistribution rights to the third party developers who will modify it in the future.
Are you saying its ok for the government to mandate that source code be made available to the government when it purchases software as long as government doesn't allow subsequent developers who will have access to the code the right to use it for anything else other than the original purpose for which it had been acquired? Friendly, Rage _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
