From David Johnson:
With all due and considerable respect to Lawrence and the rest of the
OSI,
this is not a criteria for prioritizing the list. It's a statement that
it
might be better to discourage similar licenses. I disagree strongly.
And I'll have to disagree with your disagreement
Gentle people,
What I fail to understand is what is the OSI's purpose
in certifying Open Source licenses.
Is the OSI trying to make a determination that two
different legal documents are functionally equivalent?
I hope not, as this is not only a legal impossibility,
but out of the scope of
on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:51:40PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Patrik Wallstrom wrote:
http://www.projectmayo.com/opendivx/divx_open_license_v10.txt
This license has not been approved by OSI, has it?
They call OpenDivX an Open
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on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:51:40PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[...]
A philosophical point first: I believe that attempting standards
enforcement through copyright licensing is fundamentally broken. We've
seen this tried several times, with the
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