On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:22:53AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Should we decide to change the license, we should either use the MIT > > license if we don't want it to be copyleft, or the GPL if we do. A > > custom license is not something that we want to write, and especially > > not without serious thought and consideration between people who have > > a great deal of experience in writing licenses. > > The last proposed licensed I sent is *not* a "new" license. It > is simply this license: > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html Actually, it seems I did not attach the last version of the proposed license in my last message. Attached now. Regards Javier
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