I know it seems redundant and licensing issues are (almost) always a pain. This topic is rather bureaucratic but it's like a backup for me and whoever comes after me. (all admin books are telling you that you wish that you had made a backup ...that sort of thing is going on).
Over the last year it dawned me that the difference between open-source and free software is always something that is to consider in an organization. Below is a list of licenses approved by the open-source folks. What are *free software* club members thinking? I don't expect people to go thru the entire list but I hope it reminds the one or the other about issues they would like to resolve. If no reply follows to this post then that's cool; it would show me at least that different licensing schemes are not an issue for us. Otherwise, it's better to bring up the topic. Take it easyâ Enjoy: *Academic Free License *Adaptive Public License *Apache Software License *Apache License, 2.0 *Apple Public Source License *Artistic license *Attribution Assurance Licenses *New BSD license *Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1 *Common Development and Distribution License *Common Public License 1.0 *CUA Office Public License Version 1.0 *EU DataGrid Software License *Eclipse Public License *Educational Community License *Eiffel Forum License *Eiffel Forum License V2.0 *Entessa Public License *Fair License *Frameworx License *GNU General Public License (GPL) *GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL) *Lucent Public License (Plan9) *Lucent Public License Version 1.02 *IBM Public License *Intel Open Source License *Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer *Jabber Open Source License *MIT license *MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW License) *Motosoto License *Mozilla Public License 1.0 (MPL) *Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) *NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3 *Naumen Public License *Nethack General Public License *Nokia Open Source License * OCLC Research Public License 2.0 *Open Group Test Suite License *Open Software License *PHP License *Python license (CNRI Python License) *Python Software Foundation License *Qt Public License (QPL) *RealNetworks Public Source License V1.0 *Reciprocal Public License *Ricoh Source Code Public License *Sleepycat License *Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) *Sun Public License *Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0 *University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License *Vovida Software License v. 1.0 *W3C License *wxWindows Library License *X.Net License *Zope Public License *zlib/libpng license Alex ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
