Vitório Sassi

OpenSolaris in Brazil and something more...
Sexta-feira Fev 20, 2009

About Open Source...

Here in Brazil the topic Open Source is very popular. Everybody talk about Open Source at class, at work, with friends and so on... Including Brazil is one of reference in Open Source around the world. We have the fisl in Porto Alegre, that is one of major Open Source's event.
Ok this is an premise and nobody has doubts (I guess).

Some days a go I saw an article on the web very very similiar that an article writed by me. This is not the first time that I saw some copies of text, article and include sites! Well... I don't know, but my idea about open source is if I read something and extend the idea or show another side or put my opinion AND show the credits. Well it's ok. But... if I just used the idea and not show the author, well in my opinion this kind of work has another name...
If you has an idea to extend something or put another point. It's ok, share your point. But why don't reveal the credits???

I know there are a lot of open source licences, the most populars are GPL that is used for linux, CDDL used for OpenSolaris and the BSD that's used for FreeBSD.
An great iniciative is the creative commons iniciative that available flexibel license. You can read more here (in portuguese) :)


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