Re: [Gnumed-devel] defn of open-source

[scaredycat]

Roberto Mello wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:46:15AM +1000, scaredycat wrote:
>  
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> > this is only indirectly related to gnumed:
> >
> > looking in oscar and sapdb source, it seems that a lot of it is still 
> > binary; does OS mean everything is source, and it might be somewhere
> > else in the directory tree , or can a package be "OS" and still have 
> > significant parts not in source?
> >    
>
> Open Source means a few things. Source must be provided and free for
> redistribution and modification. See http://opensource.org/ or the
> canonical source: http://gnu.org/
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto Mello
> Software Engineer, Novell Inc.
> If IBMs have Bugs, Do APPLES have Worms?
>
>  
much of the sapdb (maxdb now) open source linux download are 
configuration scripts in perl and python, but
there are also these substantial .so files which are linked in, and I 
think contain the real code that does the work;
oscar ( which is like a few orders of magnitude less significant and 
less widely used), has all it's struts actions and
java code in class files, while the jsp and xml files are source. But 
they're both still called open source.
So if Karsten released gnumed as a max--redo.sh script and a lot of 
.pyc  files, would that still make gnumed open source?
I'm just trying to be concrete to a woolly abstract answer.