I'm Will Rodger, and I'm director of public policy at the Open Source and Industry Alliance. We're a project of the Computer & Communications Industry Association here in Washington DC.
I have a question for y'all.
This is not a troll or a hostile person. Will called me (and others) about the idea of adding some sort of reciprocal non-assertion pact to the licensing language for some previously proprietary code a company that is a member of his trade group is talking about releasing as open source.
I told Will he should submit the idea here and see what other interested parties thought of it. I rather like it myself, since it might encourage more companies to open their code -- and might even prevent some future SCO-type incidents. But that's just me, and I'm an observer rather than an expert.
- Robin 'Roblimo' Miller Editor & Reporter, NewsForge, Slashdot, etc.
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