{"id":215,"date":"2006-11-27T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T01:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/i-think-exhibit-b-was-the-elephant-in-the-room\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T01:01:37","slug":"i-think-exhibit-b-was-the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/i-think-exhibit-b-was-the-elephant-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"I think Exhibit B was the elephant in the room!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few of weeks, the debate on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/open-source-has-a-little-secret-exhibit-b\/\">badgeware<\/a> has percolated to a real public debate on if they meet the OSD.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Asay asserts that forced UI attribution license (aka badgeware) are open source on his <a href=\"http:\/\/asay.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/attribution-and-full-blooded-open.html\">blog.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ajeen Narayan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivesat.com\/Open_Source_License_discussions\/thread2024573.htm\">wants to know if APL is actually open source.&nbsp; Asks OSI to comment.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I submit WPL to OSI for approval to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivesat.com\/Open_Source_License_discussions\/thread2100321.htm\">get a determination if Exhibit B is congruent with OSD<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I blog about the ramifications of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/open-source-has-a-little-secret-exhibit-b\/\">world where forced UI attribution (Exhibit B) is kosher.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Berlind blogs at ZDNet <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/index.php?p=3430\">Are SugarCRM, Socialtext, Zimbra, Scalix and others abusing the term \u201copen source?\u201d<br \/><\/a><b>GOOD ARTICLE!&nbsp;<\/b> Covers the business rationale but clearly identifies the issues.<\/li>\n<li>John Roberts (from SugarCRM) who was the first to use badgeware responds to <a href=\"http:\/\/talkback.zdnet.com\/5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&amp;threadID=27628&amp;messageID=520377&amp;start=-23\">the article here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danese Cooper (OSI Board member) blogs about the board is about to <a href=\"http:\/\/danesecooper.blogs.com\/divablog\/2006\/11\/osi_board_consi.html\">consider Attribution Licenses.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ross Mayfield of SocialText <a href=\"http:\/\/ross.typepad.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/socialtext_prop.html\">blogs<\/a> about his proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtext.net\/stoss\/index.cgi?attribution_memo\">&#8220;attribution&#8221; rider to any OSI approved license.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great!&nbsp; Finally&#8230; A real debate on whether or not &#8220;badgeware&#8221; is open source!<br \/>PS &#8211; I just picked up the term badgeware.&nbsp; I like that better than my slightly one side &#8220;forced UI attribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few of weeks, the debate on badgeware has percolated to a real public debate on if they meet the OSD.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Asks OSI to comment. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}