John, thank you for taking the time to review the entire license. My
responses to your comments/suggestions are embedded below:
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SHOW-STOPPER:
Though the APL is MPL-ish in nature, it has a few provisions modeled after
the GPL, but intensified in such a way that I
Carmen Leeming scripsit:
A Distributor may choose to distribute the Licensed Work, or any
portion thereof, in Executable form (an EXECUTABLE DISTRIBUTION) to
any third party, under the terms of Section 2 of this License, provided
the Executable Distribution is made available under and
Hi Carmen,
I sympathize with your goal. I think there's really several things
going on:
a) You want to create a license for your project
b) You want to make it easy for people to create variations of your
license
c) You'd like to get OSI approval once to cover all licenses
In that sense,
This is a good point. I also laud the effort by those who spent the past
year or so trying to make it easier to use and adapt licenses.
Unfortunately, occasionally something meant to be easy is more complex
because it bends too many preexisting rules or customs. The easy way to
make a modular
Michael - I agree with you regarding whether this license solves a problem
that an existing license does not. I think the drafter will have to
explain; otherwise, I would not recommend approval of the Adaptive Public
License since it is not attached to a specific project and appears to be
an
It sounds as if you are attempting both to control the distribution of your
license along with your software package and to control the distribution of
the license as adapted for others; this is rather strange to me.
I think there are, generally, three approaches to drafting open source
licenses:
I am sorry for the confusion in my previous email regarding our
application of the Adaptive Public License. We have developed a
specific program that we wish to distribute as open source. Our
requirements were not met by any existing license. We therefore hired a
lawyer to aid in drafting a
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