For (Legacy?) Approval: The MirOS Licence

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Wed Jul 9 21:34:37 UTC 2008


John Cowan writes:
 > Russ Nelson scripsit:
 > > So, one cost of Yet Another Open Source License is in reduced reuse,
 > 
 > True for reciprocal licenses, but not in general for simple
 > permissive ones.

Mmmmmm, permissive is better, but it's not AT ALL clear that you can
treat a permissive license as if it were effectively public domain.
Although who knows, maybe after Jacobsen, removing a copyright notice
is merely a contract violation?

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