On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > we have a couple of files in Octave Forge with non-standard licenses. > This is bad. Being able to give it a recognisable name not only eases > our organisation but also its acceptance by downstream package > maintainers such as Debian. From Debian's upstream guide "Please do > not write your own license text if you can at all avoid it. Depending > on your wishes, the GPL, LGPL or a BSD-style license will most likely > be appropriate, and it is far easier to tell whether something is > allowed if we can look at past discussions of the same text. " > > I believe that in most cases such user-made licenses are not made > because there's no appropriate license out there, but out of > indifference for the subject and belief on others better part. For > example, some functions in the image package have the following > license "This code has no warrany whatsoever. Do what you like with > this code as long as you leave this copyright in place" which could > easily be replaced by something such as the simplified BSD, FreeBSD or > ICS license which I have already suggested to the original author. > > I'd like to propose that we no longer accept such non-standard > licenses and propose this list > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses as > the ones that are acceptable. Does anyone oppose to such change? > > Carnë > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WINDOWS 8 is here. > Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. > Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. > http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ > join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ > _______________________________________________ > Octave-dev mailing list > Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
I subscribe to the initiative. We could also provide this table (which is far more easy to read) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF-approved_software_licenses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
