Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:55:46 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The "Anti-GPL" Message-ID: <353CC182.794BDF32@asme.org> References: <199804211519.JAA07257@lariat.lariat.org> <19980421172759.60471@follo.net>
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MIT's X11 has one of these licences; note that there is no GPL'd X11 ! OTOH, GPL is so restrictive that commercial providers (like netscape) can't contribute to it. Eric Raymond and Linus are indeed promoting more BSD-like licenses. Take a look at http://www.opensource.org/ cheers, Pedro. Eivind Eklund wrote: > ... > > > For provisions that should be included in the license? > > Just include a statement that 'derivate works may not be placed under > a license which deny binary distribution without source availability, > or place restrictions on binary distribution that make this > impractical.' or somesuch - that should be enough, I think. > > Eivind. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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