At 4:08 PM +0200 on 8/16/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>> 1. LICENSE shall mean an open source (e.g., free software) license
>> which allows:
>> a) Any person or entity to combine the licensed product with
>> anything else and release the resulting combination so
>> long as he/they:
>
> We should explicitly state that modifications are also allowed.
OK.
>Also,
>shouldn't we more closely define "forking" as taking a copy of the sources
>and starting one's own collaboration?
I don't see why we really need the forking provision at all -- it is
covered in a).
>
>> b) Any person to fork. Conditions for forking shall be the
> ^^ shouldn't it be "may"?
No. Note the sentence which this is a part of "licence which allows: b) any
person to fork"
>> same as 1. Forking may include any utilization of any
>> amount of the source code.
>> LICENSE shall be perpetual, non-exclusive, and irrevocable.
>
>>1. I propose that there shall be a single MAINTAINER, to be shall be
>>elected by the majority of the members of the OODL list and liable to
>>removal by the same fraction. I propose that any single decision or group
>>of decisions may be reversed by a majority vote, except for the provisions
>>of this document, once adopted, may be modified or extended to the extent
>>allowed by applicable law by a vote of two-thirds in the affirmative.
>
> Take out the two-thirds vote, it's too dangerous.
Probably right.
>
>>5. I propose that the final, official name of OPENCARD shall be designated
>>with the trademark symbol, �, and be a trademark to be owned by MAINTAINER.
>
> Is Linux trademarked? Trademarking costs $$$ !
>
>Besides that I agree with all of this.
Yes, I think Linux is trademarked. Not sure. However, a trademark (as
opposed to a registered trademark) costs nothing.
>
>Cheers,
>-- M. Uli Kusterer
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