On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:49:34AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > Hi. > > http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ (and every other mirror of > course). > > Please take a look and comment. The pages are currently not linked nor > mentioned on the rest of the website. I will add this after giving you > some time for feedback and improval suggestions. >
I have now looked closer at the pages, and they are even better than I first thought! Thanks! Here are some small ideas that no one else seem to have posted: 1. When the page goes real, make www.d.org/licenses and www.d.org/copyright alternate names for the first page, and establish cross linking with www.d.org/license (to catch the obvious typos). 2. The non-free OSL has been given the honor of being license number 001-1 Maybe you should cheat and make it number 100-1, then the top free licenses can get the honors of having the low numbers. As a precedent, the Linux counter (counter.li.org) has manually reserved "Linux user #1" for Linus Thorvalds even though he has not yet signed up on the site (which has been up for more than 10 years). All other users are numbered as they sign up. Following DFSG#10 as a sequence, the low numbers can be assigned systematically to free licenses deserving special honor, leaving gaps for any not yet written summaries and likely future license versions, something like this: [Remember DFSG#10 traditionally listed "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" in that order] 001-1 GPLv1 002-1 GPLv2 003 reserved for GPLv3 004 reserved for future use 005-1 LGPLv2.0 006-1 LGPLv2.1 007 reserved for the next LGPL 008 to 009 reserved to future good FSF licenses 010-1 classic short one paragraph unnumbered permission notice 011-1 classic 3 clause BSD with advertising clause 012-1 2 clause BSD with no advertising clause 013-1 classic 4 clause BSD with advertising clause 014-1 3 clause BSD with no advertising clause 015 to 019 other major BSD style licenses 020 reserved for future use 021-1 Artistic license 022-1 Clarified Artistic license 023 to 029 reserved for future perl or artistic licenses 030-1 Genuine public domain (mostly literary works, US gov, bible) 031-1 Plain claim of public domain assignment 032-1 Public domain assignment combined with equivalent permission 033 to 038 other public domain variants 039-1 Public Domain by name only (warning against confused use). 040 to 099 other major free licenses deserving an honor number 100-1 OSLv2 3. http://people.debian.org/~bap/NOTES includes an old checklist of things to put on these pages, most is already there, but you might be inspired. Once again, THANKS! -- This message is hastily written, please ignore any unpleasant wordings, do not consider it a binding commitment, even if its phrasing may indicate so. Its contents may be deliberately or accidentally untrue. Trademarks and other things belong to their owners, if any.
