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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:55:46 -0500
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The "Anti-GPL"
Message-ID:  <353CC182.794BDF32@asme.org>
References:  <199804211519.JAA07257@lariat.lariat.org> <19980421172759.60471@follo.net>

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MIT's X11 has one of these licences; note that there is no GPL'd X11  !

OTOH, GPL is so restrictive that commercial providers (like netscape)
can't contribute to it. Eric Raymond and Linus are indeed promoting more
BSD-like licenses. 
Take a look at
	http://www.opensource.org/

cheers,
	Pedro.

Eivind Eklund wrote:
> ...
> 
> > For provisions that should be included in the license?
> 
> Just include a statement that 'derivate works may not be placed under
> a license which deny binary distribution without source availability,
> or place restrictions on binary distribution that make this
> impractical.' or somesuch - that should be enough, I think.
> 
> Eivind.
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