Hello Licence Hackers, This is just a note to let you know that the Free World Licence V1 has been frozen and released. Its website is at: http://freeworldlicence.org/ The Free World Licence provides most of the usual free-software freedoms, but for free platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD etc) only. The website has a bulletin board for discussing the licence. This list long ago determined that the Free World Licence is not "Open Source" or OSI certifiable (there's a page in the web about that), so I am not posting to submit this licence for evaluation. I'm just emailing to let you all know that it's out there now. I want to emphasise that I do not think that the Free World Licence is the "best" licence (as some people have assumed I think) or anything like that. I'm not ideological about it. However, I do think it's a new useful licence with a role to play in the scheme of things. Thanks for the feedback and help I received from people on this list during the drafting process. Free plug: Check out my newly-released FreeVeracity data integrity and network intrusion-detection tool at http://freeveracity.org/ :-) It's released under the Free World Licence. Ross. Dr Ross N. Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), +61 8 8232-6262 (fax-6264). Director, Rocksoft Pty Ltd, Adelaide, Australia: http://www.rocksoft.com/ Protect your files with Veracity data integrity: http://www.veracity.com/
