Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Ackermann N8UR writes: > >> Well, I wasn't getting paid anything, so my incentive was to make it >> short. :-) It's less than three pages long with a normal font and margins. >> >> For what it's worth, GPL v2 (including preamble) is 2970 words. The OHL >> is 1244. > > critter phk> wc /usr/src/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright > 27 226 1406 /usr/src/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright
Yup, but the BSD license, much as I like it for many applications, doesn't do the things we were trying to accomplish. I will openly admit that we were trying to emulate the GPL framework rather than the BSD approach. Anyway, I buy your point that short is good, but I think the current document is about as short as it can be without losing the essential points we were trying to make. Trying to tweak the BSD license just wouldn't work (among other things, copyright is the least important aspect of a hardware license; dealing with patents is a much bigger deal, and the BSD license doesn't even contemplate that). John _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
