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At 06:53 AM 12/17/2001, Nils Holland wrote:

>In the end, whatever gets done, I'd suggest that any unclear implications
>of any futher move be investigated into beforehand, because else we could
>face some very unpleasant problems in the end...

I agree. Because there are many parties involved who could potentially
be unreasonable (RMS and the FSF in particular, but also IBM), the only
reasonable course of action is to avoid ANYTHING that is GPLed and stick
to the one form of open source licensing that (a) has been tested in court; 
(b) is short, clear, and unambiguous; and (c) is consistent with the BSD
Way. This means only "truly free" licensing, as embodied in the BSD and
MIT X licenses and kin. Only by sticking to such licenses will we ever
know where we truly stand.

--Brett


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