[License-discuss] Text version issue on licenses pages

Karl Fogel kfogel at red-bean.com
Wed Mar 20 20:16:41 UTC 2013


Kuno Woudt <kuno at frob.nl> writes:
>I much prefer real plain text files served as text/plain.
>
>Those are the files typically included in new open source projects and
>a wget or curl is just a easier and faster than fumbling with
>copy/paste to add a license to a project (though the fumbling may just
>mean I'm old-fashioned).

I prefer the latter way too.  As long as we can maintain them at stable
addresses, such as

  http://opensource.org/licenses/plaintext/LICENSE_NAME

or something like that, we're good :-).



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