License Committee Report for December 2009

[Bruce Perens]

FossBazaar, OpenSuse, and (I think) Fedora are each attempting to come 
up with some sort of license list. I'm sure they'd appreciate any 
parameterization and simplification. But do we really need the company 
name in that blank space, rather than something generic like 
"contributor" or "initial contributor"? Then all of the contributors can 
be listed separately from the license.

    Thanks

    Bruce

Russ Nelson wrote:
> 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?
>
>