Cherry-picking license proposals

[kmself at ix.netcom.com]

on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:30:15AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf (brian at collab.net) wrote:
> 
> Sorry if this seems pedantic...

Not at all, quite appreciated.  I have trouble keeping up with
everything and appreciate the watchful eye.

Thanks.

> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >   - Convergence.  Despite some degree of internal conflict, the final
> >     nail was really the result of independent external resolution of
> >     many of the issues we had sought to address.  As of the last meeting
> >     (O'Reilly Conference, July, 2000), the landscape was clearly
> >     shifting to focus on what seemed to be three principle licensing
> >     models:
> > 
> >     - GNU GPL/LGPL:  A primary license for HP's EZSpeak (?) project,
> 
> e-speak.  Also OpenOffice.
> 
> >       adopted as part of multi-licensing models by Sun, Mozilla, and
> >       others.
> > 
> >     - Mozilla Public License:  With very minor wording changes, adopted
> >       by Sun as the SISSL.
> 
> Uh, no.  Adopted by Sun for the "SPL", under which they've released
> NetBeans.  The SISSL is much different, much shorter, more in spirit with
> the BSD licenses than the other two.
> 
> >     - BSD/MIT style:  Apple's Darwin code is derived from BSD sources,
> >       and Apple appears more comfortable with the BSD licensing model
> >       than GPL.  Apple's own licensing has changed within the past
> >       month, I still need to review the changes.
> 
> Yes, but to be clear, Apple's APSL is much different than the BSD license.
> 
> 	Brian
> 
> 
> 

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