License Committee Report for December 2009
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Nov 28 21:20:51 UTC 2009
Joel Sherrill writes:
> Would it also be possible to have optional paragraphs?
Yes; we already have them in the BSD license.
> This is more of a question. If two licenses are the same except
> for a sentence or paragraph, can this template idea cover that?
If they're that close, then yes, I will do that.
> On a somewhat selfish side-note, would this make it possible
> to say something about the various "ok to link with"
> exception paragraphs that are added to the GPLv2? GNAT,
> various GCC run-times, RTEMS, etc have this.
>
> When I asked about this a while back the answer was something
> like you are adding more freedoms, so not worth adding another
> license.
I think that the answer would be the same. Maybe you could write up a
concrete proposal?
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