On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:42:28 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: [...] > Separately, Francesco was (IIUC) pointing out that those license > terms, as you presented them, define the term "Mesh" to refer to the > software work, when that term is not typically used in such a way. It > would be far clearer to instead use the more typical term "Software" > or "Work" in the license terms. Exactly. They refer to the work by its very name (Mesh, in the present case), thus creating an Expat/MIT variant which is specific to their piece of software. This is gratuitous license proliferation (license proliferation is always bad, but especially so when it's gratuitous!), and would generate an unnecessary duplication of permission notices as soon as some extraneous Expat-licensed code is mixed with MakeHuman Mesh (since two slightly different license texts would need to be included in all copies of the derivative work of Mesh and the other Expat-licensed work). Disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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