Goodman on BI

Over the past few of weeks, the debate on badgeware has percolated to a real public debate on if they meet the OSD. 

• Matt Asay asserts that forced UI attribution license (aka badgeware) are open source on his blog.
• Ajeen Narayan wants to know if APL is actually open source.  Asks OSI to comment.
• I submit WPL to OSI for approval to get a determination if Exhibit B is congruent with OSD.
• I blog about the ramifications of a world where forced UI attribution (Exhibit B) is kosher.
• David Berlind blogs at ZDNet Are SugarCRM, Socialtext, Zimbra, Scalix and others abusing the term “open source?”
  GOOD ARTICLE!  Covers the business rationale but clearly identifies the issues.
• John Roberts (from SugarCRM) who was the first to use badgeware responds to the article here.
• Danese Cooper (OSI Board member) blogs about the board is about to consider Attribution Licenses.
• Ross Mayfield of SocialText blogs about his proposed “attribution” rider to any OSI approved license.

Great!  Finally… A real debate on whether or not “badgeware” is open source!
PS - I just picked up the term badgeware.  I like that better than my slightly one side “forced UI attribution.”

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