On 20-Feb-01, 08:24 (CST), Sam TH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Artistic License is widely considered problematic, on account of > it's vagueness. The FSF doesn't consider it a free license. I'm not > sure if Debian has an offical stance on it. > > Almost every piece of software that uses the Artistic License also > allows the GPL as an alternative license (this is the way Perl > works). This avoids the problems raised the by the Artistic License. >
If they like the general tone of the Artistic license, you might suggest they look at the "Clarified Artistic License": http://www.appwatch.com/license/ncftp-3.0.2.txt This is listed on the FSF page as free and GPL compatible. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
