License for approval

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Tue May 20 22:00:35 UTC 2008


Matthew Flaschen writes:
 > UOML 1.1 is also vague.  What does "the work should conform to UOML." 
 > mean?  "Conform" is not defined anywhere in the license.

It's not vague ... it's perfectly clear what the license means.  The
work should conform to UOML, just as it says.  The problem is that you
then have to have someone who decides whether it conforms to the UOML.
Who will that be, and are they a disinterested party or is it the UOML
Foundation?  Is it an automated test which anyone can run and which
doesn't change over the course of that licensed work (in other words,
the test ships with the software; the test code is immutable, of
course; as long as your modifications of the software pass the test,
the you continue to have a license.)

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