Jeremias, a deliberate decision was taken to frown on condensed licenses or references. That tell me that there is a legal requirement for the license to be "in your face". So to speak.
In any case, the board was presented (I assume) with a legal opinion to that effect. Which, although IANAL, I dispute. If it so happens that I am wrong (it's been known; I was last wrong on October 14th, 1995), I am sure that someone will so inform me. But I am checking with some local IP lawyers to see what the deal is. My point being that legally there is no distinction between developers working with OSS, and any other users. And in fact the distinction ought not be made, as many of the same developers _are_ users of the codebase. So it is OK to hide the licensing? I think not. I dislike a long boilerplate license. There are two ways to get rid of it - one is to use technological techniques to ignore it. I don't like that. FOP for example has many hundreds of source files...tack in a screen of legal stuff with each one and note that people with dialup just got presented with some extra download time. Significant extra download time. I intend to clarify this issue on the ASF members list. I have problems with this decision. Arved > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 21, 2003 9:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Long licence > > > Arved, > > I don't see what's bad about it. The licence stays in every file as > necessary, the IDE should just as a service to the developer hide the > licence because it's not relevant to normal development tasks. > > On 21.02.2003 14:01:34 Arved Sandstrom wrote: > > I find it odd that it's OK to suggest tools (IDEs/editors, etc) > to hide a > > license. When the argument presented to the board was > presumably that the > > long license is legally required. > > > Jeremias Maerki > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
