Re: [Opencd-devel] What about flavors?

[Steve M. <st...@op...>]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 08:40 pm, Imran Ghory wrote:
> On 4 May 2002, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> > Interesting idea. Once we have the installer stuff sorted out it's
> > really not much more work to make 3 versions.  Other plusses:
> >
> > 1)  Having the Corporate Backend version allows us to push some of the
> > really heavy hitters like Apache and mySQL, without worrying about
> > confusing the novice user.  It would also be good to associate the
> > OpenCD project with these apps because of their good reputation.
> >
> > 2)  Each category can have different criteria.  The Home verion must
> > stress simplicity while the Backend reliability, etc.  In total, this
> > would allow many more apps to qualify.
>
> I've been doing some number crunching and found that their exists about
> 240mb of programs that could go on the CD, excluding most programming type
> software, but including some server software (Apache, MySQL, PHP and
> Perl). So I don't think at this stage we need to break them off into
> seperate CDs just seperate sections.

I have bad news.  PHP isn't actually opensource.  GASP!  Yes, its true, but a 
technicality of one of the minor and ofter ignored  clauses of the Open 
Source Definition....having you agree to another license other than the one 
provided with the program.  I believe it is not 'free' either  (However, I 
understand that it is being changed).  I think it was that one....  I don't 
want to be picky, but we should cover the bases.  blah blah blah. 

I've been pushing the OSI http://opensource.org to get popular 'programs and 
langs etc' 'open source certified' so minor errors like this don't occur.

How many of you would have bet otherwise??
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