Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 00:00

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PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de> wrote:

> I proposed something similar in http://www.lrz.de/~phm/konkrefen.html:
> All software that needs to communicate with other systems (and is therefore
> a part of public information infrastructure) can enter the public sphere
> (e.g. be eligible for use in state organisations) only after certain 
> openness certifications.  Source code may be deposited on a public server
> and kept secret there for three years or until somebody proves that the
> requirement of "open interface" aka emulatability is not met.

This deals with the problem of source code being lost. They would also
need to deposit details of the compiler, etc. So that it can be verifiable
that this is the correct source code.

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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/09
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