Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:37:01 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Licia <licia@o-o.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) Message-ID: <4.1.19990208113442.00c08cd0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <2620.918495440@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:16:56 MST." <4.1.19990208100915.00be6840@mail.lariat.org>
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At 09:37 AM 2/8/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>No offense, but this is unwise. Either you're for absolute freedom of
>movement or you're against it, and the whole beauty of the 2 clause
>BSD license is that it's simple and specifically does NOT attempt to
>place undue restrictions upon reuse. That last paragraph there is
>very legally ambiguous ("publication" is a very loose term which any
>lawyer could make legal hash out of) and only obfuscates the license
>for what is probably zero legal gain. I honestly do not and cannot
>recommend that anyone use a license other than the 2 clause Berkeley
>license, unmodified and unmolested in any way. Its very simplicity is
>a precise and deliberate part of its attractiveness in the first
>place. Start mucking with it and the GPL, with all its good
>intentions and mountains of legaese, is the next stop in the road.
Jordan:
I see your point about the language. Still I strongly believe that,
if we do not place a "poison pill" against the GPL in our licenses,
we will see the GPL subsume all else. If you were to add something
that would prevent open source code from being relicensed under
the GPL, how would you phrase it?
--Brett
"Rules? This is the Internet." -- Dan Gillmor
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