[License-review] [license review] Mulan PSL V1

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Fri Dec 6 00:23:08 UTC 2019


On 12/4/19 1:31 AM, zhou minghui wrote:
> As for your criticism, I totally understand your angle. However, you may
> understand we did that for a reason. We intended to make it easier for
> Chinese developers to read and understand, not inducing legal issues
> they don't want.  After all, we have about ten million developers in
> China, who are desperate to develop their software in open source
> fashion.  And they represent thousands of companies that may boost the
> Internet technologies.  They are not against English at all (we are in
> the same earth village, and we are applying for OSI approval here), but
> a Chinese version make them understand what they are licensed and
> license to. 

I think Carlo was arguing that this license should state that the
Chinese version is authoritative.  Certainly that would make sense to me.

-- 
Josh Berkus



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