Free Software audit update

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Aug 21 08:23:03 UTC 2006


On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:30:52AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> notice the hairy and vague condition: "as long as the operating system
> upon which Open Motif is running meets the OSI's Open Source Definition"
> so if someone want s to take Fedora and replace say the kernel and
> c-library with something proprietary for what ever reason he cannot do
> that without removing openmotif. And what about a kernel with the nvidea
> driver loaded does that still count as an openrating system matching
> OSI's Open Source Definition?

According to OpenGroup long ago it does not. But it isnt clear what an
Open Source OS actually is




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