IPL as a burden

[Rick Moen]

begin Ralf Schwoebel quotation:

> Now we have 2001 and the idea of Open Source needs a kick....

<yawn>

Possibly, but _not_ an on-the-fly redefinition to suit your convenience.

You have now been cited numerous fundamental aspects in which your
licence does not follow the principles of the Open Source Definition
(http://www.opensource.org/osd.html).  Therefore, although your licence
may, as Mr. Lincoln said, be the sort of thing that will be enjoyed by
those who enjoy that sort of thing, it is not an open source licence.

Thus, please do not refer to it that way; that will save the open source
community a great deal of work contradicting your firm's assertions to
the contrary at every turn, and save your firm a public-relations
problem.

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