Misunderstanding of the basics?

Mark Koek mark at koek.net
Mon Jan 15 19:27:47 UTC 2001


Ralf Schwoebel wrote:

[...]
> I will not mention all the paragraphs that are almost identical with
> the other licenses on opensource.org, but the fight against us is
> strange, if you do a "diff" with some of these :-/

$ diff opensource ipl
< freedom to modify *all* the code
---
> author may restrict use / require license key


Now you may have seven million identical clauses, as long as this
difference is in place, there is a problem. The polite objections to
your license are definitely not strange.


Mark



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