the X-Oz license

[selussos]

Hi Sue,


On Mar 2, 2004, at 3:50 PM, selussos wrote:

> Hi
> I would like to submit the X-Oz license for OSI compliancy.  I've 
> written the following up per your
> request on the site.

Thanks for the detailed summary.  Could you perhaps comment on why you 
are not just explicitly using the Apache 1.1 license with name changes? 
   In most cases, the benefit of reusing an existing license outweighs 
the benefits of any minor improvements in clarity, in terms of 
developer comprehensibility.

-- Ernie P.
IANAL, TINLA, etc., etc. and so forth

Great hearing from you Ernie, but I don't agree at all. 
Our object in taking the Apache 1.1 license was  to X-ify it 
and so make it the  _standard_ for other businesses to devote
hunks of R&D to a free project like XFree86 and still derive some benefit from
the endeavor.

If there is any license we would take, it would be the XFree86 one
as currently deployed, 1.1 at http://www.xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html 
as it is most certainly and unabashedly an X-based license.

Would that be preferable?

Regards 

Sue 


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