Attribution & the Adaptive Public License

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Wed Feb 7 06:07:54 UTC 2007


Timothy McIntyre writes:
 > As the OSI community considers approving a new "attribution" license, 
 > there's a key point that I think has been lost in the shuffle.  In 2005, 
 > the OSI approved the Adaptive Public License as satisfying all 10 
 > requirements of the OSD.

Do not use the Adaptive Public License as a precedent.  It is one of
the worst licenses we ever approved (Sorry, Carmen, but it's true.)

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