[sldev] ESC exempt from open source and GPL licensing?

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Taran Rampersad wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>   
>> I released most of my code to the public domain back then. The work I
>> did at Berkeley was of course licensed on Berkeley's terms.
>>     
> Then you worked on public domain software before GNU. Thank you for
> clearing that up. You didn't actually work on open source or free
> software code before then because the terms had not been created yet.
>
> I'm sure you meant well.
>   

Open Source and Open-Source Software are two separate terms and very 
often Open-Source Software is called just Open Source. Is it wrong?  As 
much as, if you call a square a rectangle!

Surely, a rectangle is not a square and Open Source is not Open-Source 
Software.

It is Open-Source Software that was coined up around the famous pitch to 
Netscape.

Open Source, however, existed much earlier in the philosophies and 
pragmatic nature of journals and publications before computer software 
was invented. It is a common technique to which intelligence agencies 
release information that still happens today. It's almost science 
itself, where it applies to many areas rather than just an act or 
release (or share) of free software.


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