RE: [Open_Gaming] Proposed Change to License

[J. Michael Looney]

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Brad Thompson wrote:

> > J. Michael Looney
> >
> > This makes _me_ much happier, given my current state of confusion, caused
> > by the land sharks, over what _software_ is.
> >
> > I would say that this is a _much_ better option than forcing GPL, at least
> > to me.
> 
> I think the confusion is mostly illusionary.  While data files can be
> considered software, the GPL doesn't talk about software, it talks about
> programs.  It would be very hard to classify a PDF file as a program.
> 

True, however Ryan's original change was "software", not "software
programs" or "computer programs".   I think the "must include human
readable format" version is a much better option than GPL.


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