Please do not CC me. Good rule of thumb: unless the Reply-To or Mail-Followup-To tells you to send elsewhere, don't CC it when you're replying. Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com> writes: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> There's not 40 GPLs, there's one. > > version 1 and version 2 ... can be counted as 1 or 2 ?? The difference between the two is epsilon. >> > and what happens when you mix and match various licenses together ... :-) >> >> Don't. Life's too short to deal with some random developer's >> licensing bogosity. > > as soon as one loads mozilla .. you have a mix of gpl and mpl True enough. But just because it's well-known doesn't make it a Good Thing(tm). If that were the case, we'd all be happy that the MS-EULA is so common because it's so common. Its manageable because both the GPL and the MPL fall into being DFSG-free, which is Good Enough(tm) for most people. > but .. i say just leave it up to the lawyers to decide That's more or less my opinion about the whole thing. The non-free stuff I make a case-by-case assessment on it if I really need it, the free and contrib stuff I don't think a whole lot about when it comes to licensing, because I know Debian's social contract all but promises I won't get boned. > and all these licenses that very few people read and understand > will become a bigger problem > ( the point, its a big mess of various licenses ) Which is why Debian's social contract defines what is Free. That way the users don't have to grind through the license issues alone. There's legal types that volunteer their time on debian-legal sorting all that BS out for us (thank God). -- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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