License List -- as of 9-11-00

Danese Cooper Danese.Cooper at eng.sun.com
Mon Sep 11 20:48:49 UTC 2000


Here are two SPL diffs (a "hacker's" one that looks like a diff file, and a
"lawyer's" one that looks like a redline) as well as the full text of the
SPL.  Thanks as always for your consideration.

Danese

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian at collab.net>
To: Danese Cooper <Danese.Cooper at eng.sun.com>
Cc: Lawrence E. Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>;
<license-discuss at opensource.org>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: License List -- as of 9-11-00


>
> We've already said that changing names on a license doesn't affect OSD
> conformance, so if that were all that were changed, then no problem.  To
> be safe, though, I don't know how we can allow other kinds of changes
> without exposing ourselves to the risk of a small change that does end up
> affecting OSD conformance.  The flip side is that if the change is simple,
> OSI certification should be relatively fast.  I'll try and bring it up on
> the board list to see if we can approve it at our next board meeting at
> the end of the month.
>
> Patches provided in "diff" format against other OSI-approved licenses are
> always appreciated.  =)
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Danese Cooper wrote:
> > Our "Sun Public License" is a verbatim copy of the MozPL 1.1, except
that we
> > substituted the word "Sun" everywhere for "Mozilla" and "Netscape", and
we
> > added documentation to the list of covered things (as separate from
source
> > code).
> >
> > So, are we automatically covered because MozPL 1.1 is okay now?  Do we
need
> > to submit separately?
> >
> > Danese
>
>
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