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<div><span class="st">touché</span></div>
<div><span class="st">Maybe than “licenses that people think they understand"</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Lawrence Rosen <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span><<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@opensource.org">license-discuss@opensource.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:33:10 -0700<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span><<a href="mailto:license-discuss@opensource.org">license-discuss@opensource.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Philip Odence suggested:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Hey maybe “well-understood” is a good alternative to “standard."</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Note that the GPL is one of the "least-understood" licenses around, even by some of its supporters who make the most outrageous claims about linking. :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">/Larry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Philip Odence [<a href="mailto:podence@blackducksoftware.com">mailto:podence@blackducksoftware.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>; <a href="mailto:license-discuss@opensource.org">
license-discuss@opensource.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><snip></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">
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