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The European Commission's open source software poolThe European Commission's open source software poolPosted Jul 11, 2002 7:33 UTC (Thu) by jharding (guest, #1102)Parent article: The European Commission's open source software pool Since the source code will be available only to a few, this can not be denominated open source software pool. It misses the "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups" issue and therefor it is just another "shared source" initiative. Sure, they don't discard that the software stored might becom open sourced, but this can only happen if someone that already has access to it voluntarily redistributes it. This isn't even a promise, they just won't prohibit it. Sounds to me like the DMCA issues: "sure, you still have fair use rights, but if the copyright owner doesn't want you to use them, there is no way for you to make use of those rights." So, there is no point in having those rights anyway, if you can't make use of them. Same thing with the software pool: why do they talk about open source if the software only potentially might become open sourced?
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