> On Aug 20, 2020, at 18:53, Atwood, Mark via License-discuss
> wrote:
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> Amazon’s preferred permissive license is Apache 2.0. In part because it
> doesn’t have this “dozens and dozens of pointless minor variants” problem.
Except in the case of MIT-0, right? ;-)
https://github.com/aws/mit-
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Amazon?s preferred permissive license is Apache 2.0.? In part because it
> > doesn?t have this ?dozens and dozens of pointless minor variants? problem.
>
> For such a short license, BSD has an awful lot of variations.
I published a print two volume set
>
> Amazon’s preferred permissive license is Apache 2.0. In part because it
> doesn’t have this “dozens and dozens of pointless minor variants” problem.
For such a short license, BSD has an awful lot of variations.
Gotta be the bikeshed problem.
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From: License-discuss On Behalf
Of Russell Nelson
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 8:13 PM
To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [License-discuss] A modest proposal to reduce the number of
BSD licenses
CAUTION: This emai
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
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
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 convinced that “don’t need to worry” and
Russell Nelson
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 8:13 PM
To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org
Subject: [License-discuss] A modest proposal to reduce the number of BSD
licenses
We've all seen the vast variety of BSD licenses. You know the ones I mean: "Do
what you want with the code
We've all seen the vast variety of BSD licenses. You know the ones I
mean: "Do what you want with the code, but if you change it, you can't
mis-represent it as the same thing. We don't include any warranty
because you didn't pay us for one."
I propose that we find two things:
1. A pair of BSD
