I've been talking to Russ Nelson and Steve Mallett about setting up a separate threaded list where we can collect good FAQs about these licenses. Anyone with ideas for getting such a FAQ together should speak up. There's many more people than me who could contribute to such a FAQ. I'm reluctant to write a preamble, as such, because it might sound too much like interpreting my own words.
One other word to the wise: Treat every word in any license as "strange" until you understand it in the context of that license. The OSL and AFL aren't unusual in that respect. /Larry Rosen > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris F Clark [mailto:cfc@;TheWorld.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Approval Requested for AFL 1.2 and OSL 1.1 > > > Perhaps it makes sense (say in a preamble) to mention that > certain sections (and obviously which sections) use wording > copied from the US copyright code, so that eveyone knows that > the reasons the words sound strange is that they are legal > jargon with precise meanings.... > > -Chris > -- > license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3 > -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3