Re: debian-legal review of licenses
Don Armstrong said on Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:38:04AM -0800,:
> In theory, it might be usefull, but there is a significant difference
> between the OSD and the DFSG: the OSD is a definition, whereas the
> DFSG is a guideline. This has poses interesting aspects for how we
> interpret licenses like the GFDL, OSL, and others.
As a watcher on both lists, I say that this list is much more
user-oriented than the OSI's license-discuss list.
Moreover, -legal reconsiders licenses (as somebody recently posted)
if, in course of time, somebody finds a problem with it. Such an
issue has not arisen on the license-discuss list so far (AFAIK), But I
doubt if the `OSI approved' stamp will be revoked once granted. Not so
with the `main' status in the Debian ftp archives.
--
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+
Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M.,
'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road,
Ernakulam, Cochin-682018,
Kerala, India.
http://paivakil.port5.com
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+
Reply to: