Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:46:13 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new license idea? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000919104443.00bf44b0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000919160157.A70731@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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IMHO, It's confiscatory whether the changes have to be revealed or not. The improvements belong to the person who made them, and if he or she is willing to release them, that's great. But he or she should not be forced to. --Brett At 09:01 AM 9/19/2000, 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. > >jcm >-- >"I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates > > >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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