For Approval: Open-Realty License

Brian C brianwc at ocf.berkeley.edu
Wed May 25 12:39:11 UTC 2005


John Cowan wrote:
> Brian C scripsit:
> 
>>Otherwise, under the wording you use below, the FSF might not consider
>>your license a "free software" license, because of the possibility that
>>down-stream versions of your code could be licensed under OSI-approved
>>licenses that the FSF thought were not 'free software' licenses. 
> 
> No fear of that.  The BSD license is FSF-free, even though downstream versions
> may be proprietary.  FSF-freeness does not require a license to be copyleft.
> 
Ahh,

You're absolutely right. I think I replied too early in the morning.
Next time, coffee first...

Brian



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