Re: License Committee report

2004-02-17 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
This must surely be the shortest open source license ever! Still, we should send it back to the author because he uses the hated word utilize. Don't use utilize! Utilize use instead. Means the same thing and avoids a phony formality. Title: Fair License Submission: Original:

For Approval: Simple Permissive License

2004-02-08 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Tell us which existing OSI-approved license is most similar... The Simple Permissive License is most similar to The MIT License. The MIT License does not suffice for my needs because it is too long and complex for the programmers that I work with to read. As one example of this problem,