Cherry-picking license proposals

[Brice, Richard]

For that matter, the Alternate Route Open Source License and the Alternate
Route Library Open Source License are very similar to the GPL and LGPL
license. In fact, the FSF has given the Washington State Department of
Transportation permission to base our license on theirs. We have been
waiting since October 1999. Approval should be a slam dunk.

Richard Brice, PE
Software Applications Engineer
Washington State Department of Transportation
Bridge and Structures Office

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Browne [mailto:roger at eiffel.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:35 PM
To: Lawrence E. Rosen; license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: Cherry-picking license proposals


"Lawrence E. Rosen" wrote:

> The board has chosen to "cherry-pick" a few licenses  ... That has
> perhaps resulted in more attention paid to the license proposals of big
> companies and less attention paid to the smaller ones.

If you must cherry-pick, why not pick those which you can deal with
quickly?

Surely it can't take more than two minutes to agree that the Eiffel Forum
license is open source. This license predates OSI, is in widespread use
amongst the Eiffel community, and has been awaiting OSI approval for
almost a year!

Regards,
Roger

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