Change ot topic, back to OVPL

Ben Tilly btilly at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 22:37:35 UTC 2005


On 8/31/05, Brian Behlendorf <brian at collab.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > I can't imagine any unproven new license entering on any tier other
> > than "not recommended".  Not much of a stick to pound people with if
> > they know they're going to get hit no matter what.
> 
> Wow.  Is this the consensus view of the board?  That the existing set of
> licenses most likely can not be improved?

I don't think that that was the message.  But if your goal is to
reduce the number of licenses in widespread use, then why would you
ever encourage the use of a new license?

Cheers,
Ben



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