<div dir="ltr"><div>Sorry about that.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 1:45 PM Kevin P. Fleming <<a href="mailto:kevin%2Bosi@km6g.us">kevin+osi@km6g.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Please try to stay on topic. Patrick started this thread with a very<br>
straightforward request for license stewards to provide information<br>
about their licenses, and now the thread is rehashing preferences for<br>
one license over another, OSL vs. GPL, etc, and hypothesizing what a<br>
future OSL could be. None of that is inappropriate for this list, but<br>
it's off topic for this thread, and that makes it harder for people<br>
who want to participate in specific discussions to do so.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Most threaded mail readers thread on the Subject: line rather than the In-Reply-To: header, so changing the subject will be sufficient. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Yes, the 'delete' key is right there, and it's not hard to press it,<br>
but when someone posts a message which is both on-topic and off-topic<br>
(as happens often), readers have no choice but to read through it all<br>
to find the parts that are relevant.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As long as people write messages on more than one topic, responses will be on more than one topic. Nobody's going to write several replies on *any* system to the same message.</div><div><br></div><div>Would it be better if people always raised an issue in one post, made a proposal to resolve it in another, and posted their arguments in a third? It would. But they won't, not without a *lot* more support (see <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue-based_information_system">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue-based_information_system</a>> for what that would look like).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>In my last lifetime, I believed in reincarnation;<br><div>in this lifetime, I don't. --Thiagi </div></div></div>