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Declan on Open Code politics
posted by mpawlo on Tuesday July 15, @03:12AM
from the public-procurement dept.
Open Source Mr Declan McCullagh has published a new Cnet News.com column on the politics related to open code. Mr McCullagh deals with the question of open code in public procurement and the caveats of a 'Peru law', mandating open code in the administration.

Read Mr Declan McCullagh's column.

Read also my column Open Code in Public Procurement, published by Newsforge.

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    Open Code definition (Score:1)
    by cp on Wednesday July 16, @12:15AM (#843)
    User #678 Info | http://axs.org/
    By "Open Code" do you mean both GPL and open-source?

    Technically GPL is a subset of open-source by definition, but I like the idea of using a different term to describe both because of the subtle but important differences between the two.

    Thanks,
    Chuck
    GPL Free Software is the worst form of software, except for all the others that have been tried. Chuck Peters, Systems Administrator, Network Engineer and Linux Tech. http://tuxedo.org [tuxedo.org]

    Re:Open Code definition (Score:2)
    by mpawlo on Wednesday July 16, @05:43AM (#844)
    User #42 Info | http://www.pawlo.com/
    Yes, I mean both GNU GPL licensed software and other software licensed under "open" or "free" licenses (such as "open source"). Since there is some controversy around the use of the terms "free software" and "open source" I choose to call all code that have access to the source code, right to modification and distribution of the modified copies "open code".

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