On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 03:59:52PM -0500, Frank da Cruz wrote:
> Does the Open Source Definition really
> "capture what the great majority of the software community originally
> meant", or do advocates of the various licenses (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, ...)
> constantly squabble over it?

It actually does. If you look at the url that was posted, you'll see
that there have been adjustments made to fine-tune the definition such
that all the ones you listed do qualify.

Squabbling about BSD vs GPL is a whole other matter :-) 

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