[License-review] Octopus License

dialog purpose dialogpurpose at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 18:38:44 UTC 2016


Hello :)

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Josh berkus <josh at postgresql.org> wrote:

> 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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