Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> > These considerations lead to the following proposed rephrasing: >> > >> > | If you prefer another widely recognized free license instead, the >> > | following ones are also fine: >> > | * the 3-clause BSD license >> > | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/BSD_3Clause.html >> > | * the GNU GPL version 2 >> > | http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt >> > | * the Expat/MIT license >> > | http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt >> >> I agree, and please update the wiki page with this. (I can do it on >> Monday otherwise, when I also intend to file the bug reports.) > > I don't know whether I'll have enough time to do it personally. > Let's do as follows: I see if I can modify the wiki page on Sunday; you > look at the wiki page on Monday and, if it's not already updated, you do > the changes. > OK?
I've updated it, thanks! >> Btw, one variant of the "MIT License" is described at: >> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php > > That is the Expat license, word for word identical. I used that link instead of the one above, this one seems more authorative. >> As far as I'm aware, there is no canonical organization or similar >> behind the MIT license, so it is difficult to find out whether we are >> using the correct term for the correct license. > > The fact is that it's *one* of the licenses historically used by MIT. > But MIT used many other licenses as well, so referring to it as the "MIT > license" is a bit vague. Moreover the X11 license is also known as the > "MIT license" as well; hence the name "MIT license" is an ambiguous > label. > As already explained, "X11 license" is also vague... It's a mess, agreed. I can't think of a better name than "Expat/MIT" though, and since the URL is present, the risk of confusion seems small. > P.S.: Please do not Cc: my personal address when replying to the list, > as I didn't ask to be copied. Thanks. Sorry, I'm reading this list through gmane.org and pressed 'F' in Gnus, which apparently ended up being the wrong thing. I changed the headers manually this time. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]