For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Sun Sep 9 11:06:00 UTC 2007


Rick Moen wrote:
> I contest your premise, and point you to Catherine and Eric Raymond's
> explanation about why this widely held view is incorrect:
> http://catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html#id2852366
> 
bash-3.2$ nslookup www.catb.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

whois indicates that it is a personal web site (organisation: private).

If you are saying that most contributions are not copyrightable, I would 
agree.  If  you are saying that the licence for copyrightable 
contributions could be changed unilaterally, as a potential contributor 
I would really hope that was not the case.


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