On 3/26/20 7:28 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > FWIW I disagree with the 2002 John Cowan wrt his assertion that the > AAL is "essentially equivalent to the Old BSD license". The badgeware > requirement in AAL applies whenever the program is launched and is a > direct restriction on modification, which seems substantially more > burdensome in practice than the BSD advertising requirement which only > kicks in if you generate "advertising materials mentioning features or > use of this software" and thus is likely to remain theoretical in most > cases.
Yeah, we used to apparently have the policy that "if nobody strenuously objects, the license passes". -- Josh Berkus _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
