Re: MIT and Expat licenses; licenses ‘similar to’ a BSD license (Re: [DEP-5] [patch] License table: more links and licenses.)

[Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 06:39:26PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> * Charles Plessy [2010-08-15 00:20 +0900]:

> > If consensus converges on using a ‘similar to’ keyword, I will submit 
> > a patch.
>
> I see the problem you want so solve and I'm unsure if a such a keyword 
> addition would finally make DEP-5 easier to use or more complicated. 
> Anyone else?

I welcome such addition.


For "my"[1] packages I discovered a few places with such slight changes 
in wording, and I have already had confused readers asking me about the 
(perceived) inconsistency in using a shared license paragraph or not.  A 
clear (and standard) hint about similarity would help her, I believe.


 - Jonas


[1] Some of "my" packages really are team-maintained - and ideally all 
of them should be.

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