First Aros 68k Kickstart boot screen!

[TheGoose]

If this is open source software, why do they need to make up their own license?:

http://aros.sourceforge.net/license.html

( based on MPL mozilla public license? )

Why don't they just distribute with  a real license (GNU / General Public License)?

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html

[TheGoose]

"As for the licence, the modified MPL was chosen so that comercial projects like MOS could use the source code without having to publish their private code. Which is a good thing as it allowed the MOS guys to use and fix te AROS code without giving away their, trade secrets."

Yeah, that sounds very open source to me.

You can still make money with a GPL license. And it would really look more professional and legitimate to allow an object third party to say what the conditions are.

Selling:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

[TheGoose]

Well, I don't think the difference is semantic here, plainly. But I'll leave you to your version of "free and open".