<div dir="ltr">Are these enough or more reasons are needed?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:04 PM, dialog purpose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dialogpurpose@gmail.com" target="_blank">dialogpurpose@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Octopus License is different from other licenses, because:<div><br></div><div>1- It makes clear that THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS. (most other licenses don't).</div><div><br></div><div>2- It makes clear that re-licensing is granted.</div><div><br></div><div>3- It mentions that all <font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.96px">files associated with the software fall under the license unless explicitly disclaimed in individual files.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.96px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.96px">4- It has this statement, </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.96px">No written agreement, license, or royalty fee is required for any of the authorized uses.</span></div><div><br></div><div>5- Other permissive licenses are all short and not clear enough, but Octopus License is.</div><div><br></div><div>6- It grants placing warranty, all other permissive licenses don't.</div><div><br></div><div>7- it grants everyone to copyright their derived work.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.96px"><br></span></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Josh berkus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josh@postgresql.org" target="_blank">josh@postgresql.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 12/22/2016 10:39 AM, dialog purpose wrote:<br>
> It is different from MIT, ISC, BSD, UoI/NCSA Open Source License<br>
<br>
</span>You need to explain *how* it's different, and why those differences are<br>
important and needed in the OSS ecosystem.<br>
<span class="m_-3878806202574928287HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--Josh Berkus<br>
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