Re: KDE application relicensing
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:24:04AM -0000, Regis Boudin wrote:
> Oops, soory for that. He is relicensing under FreeBSD Documentaion
> License. I heve no idea where the BSDDL abreviation comes from.
I'd still never heard of it; Google was able to find it, and I
recognize it as a license that came up recently. See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00649.html .
It's not a great license. I concur with Walter's explanation of the
problems and recommendation to use a standard license instead of this
custom thing.
It's disappointing that FreeBSD uses a different license for
documentation than programs, even though the spirit of the terms
are identical. Why make things so complicated? Use the same license.
I also notice that the list of "forms" in the one I found differs from the
ones in the one we reviewed recently. The nature of this license is
that it's likely to be modified a little every time someone uses it.
Like the BSD license, it also requires the disclaimer text be modified,
which is why I recommend the MIT/X11 license, which can be used verbatim.
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