so waht? Re: WG: MSFT and GNU questions

[Steve Mallett]

On Sunday 10 June 2001 13:13, David Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday June 10 2001 10:21 pm, Angelo Schneider wrote:
> > Other licenses are more complicated, so if I would like to get rid of
> > the burdon of some code, but also like it to be available for the public
> > I publsih it under GPL. That one needs the less infrastructure from my
> > side ....
>
> Some licenses are arguably a bit more complicated than the GPL/LGPL, but
> most of them are much simpler.
>
> There is no license that meets everyone's needs, which is why we need more
> than one. We shouldn't be encouraging the proliferation of new
> licenses, but there is no reason to discourage the use of other existing
> licenses. I for one, am certainly not going to consider a license based
> solely on the needs of conformity.


I hear what you're saying. Let me add that I hope no one picks a license on 
the sole basis of simplicity as well.  Meet your needs.


-- 
Steve Mallett