Legacy? Re: For Approval: The MirOS Licence

[Thorsten Glaser]

Ernest Prabhakar dixit:

> It sounds like MirOS is a *new* license, only used in code
> copyrighted by you, so the "legacy" issue doesn't apply.

This is not entirely correct… it’s not new, I’m not the only developer
of the MirOS Project, and there have been people outside the project
using it too… although I’d probably have a hard time citing more than
2-3 people since I never bothered to look, either. So I’m indeed having
a weak argumentation base here.

(Note that the OpenBSD project doesn’t view the ISC licence as legacy.)

But look at it from this POV: it’s the equivalent of the MIT/BSD/ISC
style licences for European developers. None of the existing licences
in “copycenter” style (and only very few in “copyleft” style) meet our
requirements. This is one of the reasons I apply again.

bye,
//mirabilos
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