* Francesco Poli:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:17:24 -0700 Joel Aelwyn wrote:
>
>> But in my experience, when
>> contacting authors, a great many of them simply copied boilerplate
>> from an old BSD license, and if you discuss with them the rationale
>> given by the University of California when they
>
* Joel Aelwyn:
> 4) The DFSG tradition is muddy (at best) on whether it refers to the
> 4-clause or 3-clause variant of the license -
It's pretty clear: The DFSG are older than the wide-spread adoption of
the 3-clause BSD license. Until UC Berkeley relicensed the Berkeley
Software Distribution u
Harald Geyer wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote:
"Copyright 2005 by XYZ. The copyright holder hereby grants permission to
everyone, forever, to do anything with this work which would otherwise be
restricted by his exclusive lega
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:38:18PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Francesco Poli:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:17:24 -0700 Joel Aelwyn wrote:
> >
> >> But in my experience, when
> >> contacting authors, a great many of them simply copied boilerplate
> >> from an old BSD license, and if you discus
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:44:32PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote:
> I don't see anything in our message that is not specific to my
> original wording. Probably you can give me a pointer, why this
> "enhanced version" is still poor.
>
> Especially I don't see why a liberal and short license is a disfav
Scripsit Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Francesco Poli:
>> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:17:24 -0700 Joel Aelwyn wrote:
>>> discuss with them the rationale given by the University of
>>> California when they mass-retroactively-relicensed from the
>>> 4-clause to 3-clause license,
>> Could you ple
Harald Geyer wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:20:42PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote:
"Copyright 2005 by XYZ. The copyright holder hereby grants permission to
everyone, forever, to do anything with this work which would otherwise be
restricted by his exclusive lega
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The fact that he's even presenting this tired old argument means that
> either nobody is competently presenting the arguments for freeing of
> standards documents, or the arguments aren't being heard ...
Agreed. If someone from the Debian community has
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The fact that he's even presenting this tired old argument means that
>> either nobody is competently presenting the arguments for freeing of
>> standards documents, or the arguments aren't being heard ...
>
> Thank y
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:29:26AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > The fact that he's even presenting this tired old argument means that
> > either nobody is competently presenting the arguments for freeing of
> > standards documents, or the arguments aren't being heard ...
>
> Agreed. If someo
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