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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:21:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new license idea?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009190921230.85547-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000919160157.A70731@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, j mckitrick wrote:

> What about a license where all changes must be returned to the
> original author, but do not have to be made public?  This way, the
> author will not be locked out of improvements to his/her code, and yet
> it will be at their discretion if they include them in their own code
> or not.  At the same time, those changes would not *have* to be made
> public.
> 
> This probably has major holes, but after reading
> yet-another-license-flame-war, it got me thinking.

The solution to yet-another-license-flamewar is yet-another-license? :-)

Kris

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