An explanation of the difficulty of solving license proliferation in one sentence
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Mar 15 05:27:20 UTC 2005
Quoting Forrest J. Cavalier III (mibsoft at mibsoftware.com):
> I've written enough already, but I can't let this paragraph lie.
Yet, your comments seem to have nothing at all to do with it. For:
> I have not criticized anonymously then or now, and license-discuss
> is hardly considered public. [snip a whole lot]
My goodness, I've not seen as extremely _thoroughgoing_ a
misapprehension in many long years. This is surely a record.
I would have thought that my reference in that paragraph would have been
extremely clear, but it did not concern you or Eric Raymond -- but
rather a flap raised by the likes of "squiggleslash" concerning a
short-lived passage in Russ Nelson's personal blog.
> The "Licensing HOWTO" is not mentioned or linked from the OSI site.
> I fail to see how it is a work "coming out of the OSI."
Excuse me, but I first corrected your erroneous (and scurrilous)
statement about Eric Raymond leaving the Board, and then commented that
he remains on the Board where he _belongs_, because among other things
he's coauthor of the best thing to come out of OSI in eight years.
I really have no interest in bandying organisational politics with you,
but, to quote the HOWTO:
This is a draft of an OSI working paper. It has not yet been
formally approved by OSI's board, though OSI and its legal counsel
have approved the direction of the work.
> The OSI was formed in Fall 1998, so what's the reference to 8 years?
Palo Alto restaurant, 1997. Christine Peterson of the Foresight
Institute. If you don't get the reference, ask around or look it up in
the book _Open Sources_.
> You also asked for clarity on "unprofessional".
Um, no, I most certainly did not. I have little time or patience for
that sort of rubbish namecalling rhetoric. Which I'm quite sure is what
I said the first time.
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Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
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