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Re: [school-discuss] Open sourcing of previously commercial software

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 05:12, Doug Loss wrote:
> I don't know anything about this software other than what's listed in this
> article.  It _sounds_ as though the company making the software is getting
> rid of it.  But we all know that publishing the source code for an
> application isn't the same as releasing it under an OSI-approved license.
> We'll see.

> http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002083001t.htm

From the article:

    The e-education course platform is written in PHP, an Internet-based
    scripting language, and it works with the Sun Solaris operating system
    and MySQL, an open-source relational database.

Modulo the potential for backslashes in pathnames, this is a promising start.

Cheers; Leon