Re: RFS: spim
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Far better than a separate statement in email, the full license terms
> should simply be updated in a new release of the work. That way, every
> recipient has access to the full terms under which they can act.
>
> Then the new license terms can be discussed as a whole here on
> ‘debian-legal’ to see what problems remain.
That's poorly phrased. While I did mean to imply that both the above
should happen, there is no necessary sequence to them. That is,
discussing a new set of license terms doesn't require that the release
has yet happened.
> Choosing a well-understood, widely-known free-software license (e.g.
> GNU GPL or Expat terms) would make this much simpler, of course.
Meaning that it would make the discussion much quicker, and simpler to
get the work into Debian.
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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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