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Re: Experience with convincing people to DFSGize their licenses?



On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:16:16AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:14:50PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mar 3, 2004, at 17:24, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > > >
> > > >The next question is, which DFSG-free license would you recommend
> > > >for (mostly-)non-program files?
> > > 
> > > Depending on what they want, either the 2-clause BSD/MIT X11 (nearly 
> > > the same) or the GPL.
> > > 
> > > [ The 2-clause BSD is the one without the advertising clause ]
> > 
> > I think we need to start saying just "MIT" or "MIT/old X11"; we can't
> > really say "MIT/X11" any more.
> 
> Eh?  Why can't we?  What's the "new" MIT/X11 license?

If we keep saying "the MIT/X11 license is okay" then some fuckhead
will use the X-Oz license. Same problem that we have with the BSD
licenses.

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