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On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Have you ever pondered the question why some of the new code in 2.5 is > coming up with a dual-license of OSL/GPL ? Is it because OSL has some > meaningful terms understood by the courts? Is it because the folks at OSI > understand a bigger picture? For the people who haven't found it yet, the OSL can be found here: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl.php I like this license a lot; to my untrained eye it seems to give much more protection than the GPL. > Richard, is there a way to make OSL and GPL compatable ? > Richard, will you allow OSL and GPL to coexist ? > Richard, can OSL superceed GPL ? > Richard, can you agree there may be a better license than GPL ? > Richard, if people want to develop under OSL, what are the results > of the combined work? > Richard, if GPL can be improved by the adoption of OSL ideas, > what benefits are there to you idea to holding onto the > past? Interesting questions, I hope Richard will answer them. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://guru.conectiva.com/ Current spamtrap: <a href=mailto:"october@surriel.com">october@surriel.com</a> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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