Re: [Fsfe-uk] Clarification needed

[John Dean]

Hi
So basically what you are say is that the UK members of theKompany team 
would not be welcome?

At 22:56 25/03/2002 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> Alex Hudson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > "You may not distribute any changes you make without those changes being
> > accepted back by theKompany.com and incorporated into the Software
> > Product"
> >
> > The violates section 4 of the Open Source definition. [...]

We took this position to ensure that changes are in fact contributed back 
and not just taken without the permission of the author. This in fact 
happened in the case of Max Judin's KDE Studio


> IMO, this typifies the stance of today's "open source supporter" businesses,
> who are happy for customers to look but not develop.  This ability to help
> others is part of the reason why I want to support Free Software, so any
> model which doesn't allow me to do that isn't one I care about.
>
> The OSD vs current usage of the term problem is a reason to use "Free
> Software" instead of "Open Source".
>
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Regards
John,

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