[License-review] Legacy Approval: APL AROS Public License.

Josh Berkus josh at postgresql.org
Fri Jul 27 22:00:17 UTC 2012


On 7/27/12 9:19 AM, Karl Fogel wrote:
> In any case, I'm not sure it would make sense for OSI to approve a
> license (which is a very long-lasting act) because of a temporary
> political delay on the part of the licensor(s).  The AROS team is going
> to solve this decision problem eventually -- hopefully soon, and they'll
> do it sooner if there's a strong motivation.  Relicensing under Mozilla
> 2.0, which is already OSI-approved, could be that motivation.

+1 on that.

Also, how different is the AROS license from the MPL 1.1 really?  It
looks the same to me, except for the change of licensor.

I'm also kind of confused as to what the Power2People project has to do
with AROS, but that's a separate matter, I think.

--Josh




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