License Committee Report for December 2009

[Russ Nelson]

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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