Janet M. Swisher wrote:

> Looks  good to me :-)

:-)

> I'm in favor of making things more open, as long as the license as a 
> whole is non-viral.

I like to avoid the word "viral". It has negative connotations, which gets 
people arguing forever about whether it's accurate. I prefer neutral terms 
like "reciprocal".

> The advantage of the dual-license scheme is that you can use the CC-BY 
> license if you want to avoid possible GPL "infection".

I am a fan of dual licensing. It allows you to be flexible, without 
droping down to a license with zero restrictions (BSD, MIT).

I see more FOSS projects adopting dual licenses. Perl is the traditional 
example, but nw there is OOo and Mozilla as well. Each one has their own 
idea of what makes a good license (Perl likes Artistic, Moz likes MPL, Sun 
likes SISSL). But they don't want to become isolated. So they adopt a dual 
GPL / xyz license system.

Well, that's my take anyways.

> Beyond that, I defer to anyone (such as the debian-legal folks) who's 
> spent a bunch of time thinking about these issues, which I have not.

Ok. The Debian-legal team has been invaluable.  :-)

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