On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:10:53PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > What, even the SSLeay license? It's not a BSD license, and fuck knows > > what "compatible with OpenSource Initiative criteria" is supposed to > > mean. > > > > MySQL exception says: "Due to the many variants of some of the above > licenses, we require that any version follow the Open Source Definition > by the Open Source Initiative (see opensource.org)"
Yeah, fuck knows what that means. A vague definition in terms of another vague definition, *in a license*. > Anyway if MySQL folks would add both licenses in its exception > could be fine, I think. That would be the obvious approach. The SSLeay license isn't particularly BSD-like in intent, so it would be really stretching the bounds of plausibility to label it as one, and it's not like there's a shortage of space. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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