On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:29:54 -0700 Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > About Specification - I'm not bothered about that wording. I don't think > > the arguments against using MIT/Expat hold water and I'm very unhappy > > about XSF making a new licence, but at least work under this license > > could follow the DFSG. > > That's my highest priority here, followed by meeting the needs of the > XSF's "customers" (developers and service providers).
That is something I would again like to thank you for. > > About license proliferation, several years ago the XSF (then the JSF, > long story) proactively asked OSI to obsolete the old "Jabber Open > Source License", so we've done our part on that score. :) Well, you helped in deprecating a redundant license (-1), but now you are proposing to introduce a new one (+1). Since -1 + 1 = 0 you are now about to nullify your previous good deed. That's why I'm trying to recommend you against this action! [...] > Perhaps bold text will help. I'll play around with the formatting > somewhat. The license will appear only in HTML files, not ASCII as I've > pasted here, so we have some leeway about formatting. Please take into account that your license will likely be converted into plain text by some redistributors (think about debian/copyright files, e.g.). My well-known disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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