[License-review] [license review] Mulan PSL V1
Josh Berkus
josh at berkus.org
Fri Dec 6 00:23:08 UTC 2019
On 12/4/19 1:31 AM, zhou minghui wrote:
> As for your criticism, I totally understand your angle. However, you may
> understand we did that for a reason. We intended to make it easier for
> Chinese developers to read and understand, not inducing legal issues
> they don't want. After all, we have about ten million developers in
> China, who are desperate to develop their software in open source
> fashion. And they represent thousands of companies that may boost the
> Internet technologies. They are not against English at all (we are in
> the same earth village, and we are applying for OSI approval here), but
> a Chinese version make them understand what they are licensed and
> license to.
I think Carlo was arguing that this license should state that the
Chinese version is authoritative. Certainly that would make sense to me.
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Josh Berkus
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