[License-review] Octopus License

Josh berkus josh at postgresql.org
Thu Dec 22 18:34:55 UTC 2016


On 12/22/2016 10:31 AM, dialog purpose wrote:
> Hello, my name is Barzi Maghdid Ahmad, I have an open-source which I
> want Open Source Initiative to approve it. It is based on Tcl/Tk
> license, but I solved many problems to make it conform to the Open
> Source Definition. I named it Octopus License. here is the license template:

So, can you explain why this license is needed when we have both the MIT
and two different BSD licenses?  The only substative difference I see is
the requirement to add a copyright notice in each file, which is hard to
regard as an improvement.

Also, why "octopus"?



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