On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:51:08PM -0400, Mike Olson wrote: > I'm following up on a thread that's a month or so old, now. My > apologies for the delay in closing this out.
Not at all, thank you for pursuing this. > I was unsuccessful in getting the Commons folks to work with the FSF > on a GPL-compatible commons deed. While I believe that such a deed > would be in the interest of the community generally, I don't have the > time or throw weight to force the issue. I agree with you, and regret that I also have insufficient weight to influence this. > We've consulted with our attorney, and agree that the simplest solution > is to use the identical license for the documentation and the code. > Accordingly, the next release of each of our products will use the > Sleepycat public license for the documentation. > > I believe that this resolves the issue that Brian Carlson raised > on July 8, regarding problems including the Berkeley DB doc suite with > the Debian distribution. > > Thanks for your time and patience. Please let me know if you have > any questions, or there is any additional follow-up necessary. That's wonderful. Thank you for being so willing to work on this. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain