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To split hairs: "Free" or not, legal or not, the source is now open.
by fennecfoxen 15y ago
To split hairs: "Free" or not, legal or not, the source is now open.
- phuff 15y agoTo split hairs even further, the source is not _open_ so much as _publicly available_. There is a big difference. "Open source" is a term of art with a specific set of legal requirements attached to it. If this code is illegally published from closed source code without permission it doesn't meet the definition of "open" that the term of art implies. cf. http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd