Re: [License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?

2021-09-09 Thread Bruce Perens via License-discuss
Summary: Larry is still Larry The situation you are all left in is that the largest companies have figured out how to operate a resource-extraction paradigm, in which they obtain the maximal utility from the Open Source community. much as if they were mining or logging a natural resource. Communit

Re: [License-discuss] OSI as guarantor for "or later" *GPL clauses

2021-09-09 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 04:27:48PM +0200, Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz via License-discuss wrote: > Yes the idea is interesting. > So you avoid giving a "blank check" to the FSF by giving another to OSI... > I assume that both organisations are safe :-) My intention is actually to avoid giving a bla

Re: [License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?

2021-09-09 Thread Sebastian Crane
Dear McCoy, > This would be a relatively elementary task if the mailing list were > more easily searchable I've searched the mailing list archives already. Alas, it is not that elementary; I couldn't find any mention of previous versions of the AFL! In case you'd like to have a look yourself