When is Open Source not Open Source?
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| The incompatibility between that and the Zimbra license is pretty glaring,
| no further comment needed.
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| The reason this matters is that open source, as a development methodology
| and as a culture, depends utterly on the freedom to fork. You can’t have
| open source practices without open source freedoms: the practices depend
| on the freedoms.
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http://www.rants.org/2007/06/26/when-is-open-source-not-open-source/
Some companies seem to be getting their act together.
Centric CRM and SocialText respond to open source hard line
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| The Open Source Initiative's plan to crack down on unapproved use of
| the term 'open source' appears to be having an impact, with two of the
| vendors targeted announcing plans to use OSI-approved licenses.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=645F5212-CDC3-4E28-A577-C7C75280B2D9
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