Hi, A while back you stated the following. >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:46:07 -0800 (PST) >From: Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: It's not the "Apache Public License" > >> Recently, we've been asked if it's appropriate to place the license at >> the foot of a source file, or whether the full license can be >> incorporated by reference using a "short form". > >My opinion, and this has been backed up by legal counsel on another >project I've been involved in, is that a short term reference is no less >legally defendable than including the whole license, in other words >legally it'd have the same effect; the ASF hasn't adopted that as a policy >yet, though, since there are parties who disagree. It's a topic for >discussion about licensing with the ASF's lawyers, so I'd hope we could >get an answer to that soon. > > Brian I was wondering if the lawyers have made up their minds yet on whether the short from license is acceptable? Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
