@Aki What does the phrase "OSS principles" even mean? OSS is not an organisation that it may have principles. Open source software is made by many different people/organisations for a great, great many different reasons. Think about it. As a software developer and when making software you may choose to make it open source. You then have to choose from one of the many OSS licences. These decisions will not be affected by anything but your own goals with he software. You may choose to make your software OSS (and later on you may choose a particular OSS license) for any of the following reaons: personal philosophy, competitive advantage, money, etc etc. Bottom line is that it is an individual decision made by the people who make software and their "principles" are as individual as they are. I feel that you cannot compare the FSF to OSS as you are trying to do. The FSF is an organisation that has certain goals and a certain philosophy. OSS, on the other hand, is made by hundreds of thousands of different people all with different goals and/or philosophies. For example as a developer I may decide to make my software open source to make it better able to compete with popular proprietary stuff. I may then choose one of the more liberal OSS licences over the GPL so that I can have more control over my code. My choices depend on me and what I want. With my own very small project, DukaPress, we made it open source and GPL because we had to: 1. To be able to compete with our already open source competitors 2. Because all WordPress plugins should be GPL as WordPress itself according to popular opinion in the WP world Basically, I am trying to say that what drives OSS is not a core set of goals or fundamental philosophy. What drives OSS is very particular to the goals of the people behind a specific open source software project. Kelvin www.likechapaa.com <http://www.dukapress.com>www.dukapress.org On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:29 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
A further definition of from the Free Software Foundation : “Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,”not as in “free beer.”
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it means that the program's users have the four essential freedoms:
- The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). - The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. - The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). - *The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.*
I've highlighted the most important part of a community as the FSF.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
*The 4 ethical principles of Free Software Foundation :* ** *- FREE FROM RESTRICTION* ** *- FREE TO SHARE AND COPY* ** *- FREE TO LEARN AND ADAPT* ** *- FREE TO WORK OTHERS* ** http://www.fsf.org/ OPEN SOURCE Ethical principles?
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