Perhaps, but the audience I was proposing wouldn't understand that, or care
if they did.  I'm more worried about the people in organizations that don't
want to allow Open Source software to be used at all, because they have only
"heard" things about it, and didn't like what they heard.


Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 7:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Plain English Explanation of Open Source Licenses


On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:51:57PM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote:
> It's a really nice explanation of how Open Source licenses, particularly
the
> GPL work

Overall, this is true - yet it perpetuates the myth that only the GPL
"protects" software. This, as we have been discussing on this very list over
the past few days, is simply not true.

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