License Committee Report for September 2009

[Will Robertson]

On 16/11/2009, at 11:54 PM, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:

> So, we're discussing if FPLL is:
> - valid under OSI terms (it's open source compliant).
> - different enough from the other solutions to be a license on its  
> own.

Well, I'm not involved in this whole process besides having put  
forward a licence of my own; but it sounds from my limited experience  
that the cases you're dealing with are different enough from the  
"standard licences" that there's merit to a new licence. (Although I  
have to admit that thinking though the ramifications of how the source  
may be modified and embedded in a closed-source program makes my brain  
hurt a little.) I'm interested to hear the opinions of others here.

-- Will