support requirement

Seth David Schoen schoen at loyalty.org
Mon Aug 30 21:56:53 UTC 1999


Dj writes:

> > Just because something is released under an Open Source license does not
> > guarantee its the unconditional embrace by the community.  Choosing a
> > standard free license is one thing that could help on that score.
> 
> But then, if the license is open source or a standard open source license, we
> still have the possibility that it will *still* get reimplemented. Remember that
> we started here with the suggestion that the GPL was "magic pixie dust" in
> terms of community acceptance.

Right, so I was thinking of "standard free license" narrowly.

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