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LukeShu on Dec 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec

Open source means these things: http://opensource.org/osd

"Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:"

Without being able to build and use it, the "derived works" section can't be met.

sliverstorm on Dec 13, 2013 [–]

That reads more like the GPL than a definition of what open source means. What, then, do you call code that provides the source but does not allow you free distribution of both the source & binaries? "The source is open but it's not open source"?

wmf on Dec 13, 2013 | [–]

Usually that's called shared source.

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