Debian Developers - Re: Re: Bug #298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

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Re: Re: Bug #298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

Matthew Palmer

2005-03-06, 2:48 am

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:38:49PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote:
> (not sure if i can post to this list, but what the hey)
>
>
> It's the fair license, which is OSI approved:
> http://opensource.org/licenses/fair.php

Thanks for pointing this out. Now we have a concrete example of just how
screwed up OSI is. That licence does not grant any permission to modify,
redistribute, or otherwise deal in the work in a Free manner. For it to be
judged as satisfying the Open Source Definition is ludicrous.

- Matt