Legacy? Re: For Approval: The MirOS Licence

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Thu Jul 10 20:12:40 UTC 2008


Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 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.

You haven't given any convincing reasons the MIT license won't work for 
European developers.  I understand you don't like capitalized 
disclaimers, but they're no less valid than the uncapitalized variant in 
Europe.  A license's job isn't to look pretty.  It's to /license/.

Matt Flaschen



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