Re: [License-discuss] A modest proposal to reduce the number of BSD licenses

2020-08-20 Thread Atwood, Mark via License-discuss
Hi! If anyone can find cases were Amazon or an Amazon company is publishing open source under a non-standard BSD license, please let me know, and we will fix it. If anyone gets involved in formally step by step relicensing an open source project and there are commits to it from Amazon sta

Re: [License-discuss] A modest proposal to reduce the number of BSD licenses

2020-08-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russell Nelson dixit: > Yes, what I'm proposing goes against the law. The question is what harm is > created and what benefit is created, not whether a law exists or not. If you It’s also immoral and goes against the wishes of at least some permissive-licencing authors. *Especially* with permiss

Re: [License-discuss] A modest proposal to reduce the number of BSD licenses

2020-08-20 Thread Russell Nelson
On 8/18/20 4:57 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Lawrence Rosen dixit: This has been proposed before. What is different now is that the Public Software Fund is going to stand behind this process, and defend the project's editor against lawsuits by any licensors who object to this relicense. I’m not