Hi All,
I greatly appreciate the work on the license. I LOVE the outcome. I'm all in
favor of it. But, I sorta need to scratch around and figure out what the
special clause for FreeCard means, in the real world.
> here's what Richard and I came up with. He ran it by a lawyer:
But what does this mean in the 'real world?' By this I mean that the GPL is
sorta sacred and NOT to be altered. We are making a change to it, right? Is
this type of thing done eleswhere?
What is the rest of the OpenSource community going to say/think?
Will the code base be able to freely cross over with other GPLed code? I
think so, but must ask as I'm mostly ignorant about these type of detailed
license issues and implications.
Is the license to a point, and that exception mostly, where we can go out
and talk about it in other places beyond this list? These discussions are
just for discussion reasons. I see no harm in doing so. Perhaps if someone
has massive objections, then we should have them be mentioned NOW.
In due time, I also feel that we need some type of plan for the license
approval. But, it is too early, way to early, to put it up for a vote, IMHO.
I'd like to see a staged vote as well as lots of other discussions to happen
in this license picking process yet. First stage, initial agreement to
proceed on the broad concepts. Second stage, formal approval some 3 months
later.
How about this, if there are no serious objections in the next week, then
let's take our "proposed" license out to others beyond this list and see
what type of endorsements or otherwise that comes from its mentions. Wider
public discussions are needed soon.
Please, let's put the proposed license onto the main web site as well as
some FAQs about the license. Thanks!
Thanks.
Mark Rauterkus
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