Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:30:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Marco_Br=F6der?= <marco.broeder@gmx.eu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1006142126480.32189@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <201006150247.20325.marco.broeder@gmx.eu> References: <201006150247.20325.marco.broeder@gmx.eu>
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Marco Br?der wrote:
> But it is not very useful in its current state, because several popular
> licenses are missing and some license foo is not right / specific enough to be
> considered legally correct (for example there is no 'one BSD License', there
> are at least three of them, all legally different). The legal consequences of
> even very small differences can be very huge. We actually have to make this
> legally right or the whole thing is useless.
This points nicely to something I've been wondering about.
Could it be a problem for non-lawyers to categorize ("give an opinion")
on a license that isn't an exact word-for-word duplicate of a known
license?
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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