From 56c5c3c1526d45e0b9d9e109507e25bf830971a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roan Kattouw Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:37:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Expand language about open source programming languages --- index.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index c015cf7..d726753 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -1161,9 +1161,12 @@ This section covers topics related to open source. source. This would encourage members of the public to start contributing to the project as early as possible. -* All software being developed should be developed using an open-source - programming language. For programming languages, any OSI-approved license - should be okay. The programming language itself need not be copyleft. +* All software being developed should be developed using an open source + programming language and toolchain. This means an open source compiler + or runtime should be available for the language(s) used, and it should + be possible to build and run the software from source using only open source tools. + For programming languages and build tools, any OSI-approved license + should be okay; they need not be copyleft. * In addition to the software being open source, project documentation should be openly licensed. This includes things like design documents, -- 2.7.4