Closed kfogel closed 2 years ago
Updated the readme to be more clear about the limitations of our license.
The software is still described as "Rock RMS is an open source Relationship Management System (RMS) and Application Framework for 501c3 organizations1"
We believe that is the best way to describe our project to our community.
@jonedmiston Well, words only mean things when people agree they do, of course. If you decide to use "open source" to mean something different from what the rest of the software industry uses that term to mean, no one here can stop you. But it's guaranteed going to mislead people -- as it misled me -- over and over, just as if you sold bottles of apple juice but labeled them "milk".
For reference, here, here, and here describe how this came up in another project (later in that thread you can see that the author of that project fixed the problem).
(Also for reference & for the convenience of others: I assume commit 22f496ed212b is the README change you're referring to. That commit doesn't mention this ticket, and you didn't mention the commit ID in your comment above, but hopefully my mentioning it here will create some kind of linkage at least in GitHub-land.)
I would just like to re-iterate @kfogel's consideration since "Open Source" has an established definition which the "Rock Community License" does not meet. Projects like this would often instead refer to themselves as "source available" or simply just "open".
The Rock RMS project describes itself as "open source" (e.g., in
README.md
, and in the "About" section of the project's GitHub home page), but the Rock Community License is not an open source license.Possible solutions: