On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 07:45:20PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > (I'd trim the CC list but it looks like it was intended to be this > long; go figure...) > > On Feb 25, Sam TH wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:55:15PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > > Whoah whoah. > > > > > > 10.Example Licenses > > > > > > The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" licenses are examples of > > > licenses > > > that we consider "free". > > > > > > > > > Say again? > > > > In that case, I guess Artistic is acceptable. But that is > > unfortunate, given that this means that we have diverged from the FSF > > analysis, something that I don't think we do elsewhere. I'll look > > through the mailing list archives. > > May I suggest that we get this author to adopt the Clarified Artistic > License, which everyone agrees IS free and furthermore is > GPL-compatible... see ncftp for a copy if you haven't seen it.
Definitely a good idea, although the author seemed also receptive to
the idea of the GPL. But everybody should be encouraged to either
adopt the license of Perl (AL/GPL) or the Clarified Artistic License,
so that we can avoid these difficulties.
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