Paul Guyot wrote: > > >The idea of applying the license to itself seems > >a clever one, but is incompatible with allowing > >modifications to the licensed work. > > I wonder why. Could you please develop, either regarding Draft 1 > (always interesting) or the newer Draft 2? -- Paul,
If modifications are allowed *and* the license applies to itself, then each and every user is allowed to modify the license text... This would mean I could remove the requirement that your copyright notice not be deleted, then I could make a new distribution with the modified license, after replacing your copyright notice with my own. Alternatively I might modify the license so, that it allows me to create a proprietary package from your code, then distribute that with my modifications without releasing that code as open source. All taking and no giving. All in all: a modifiable license amounts to no license at all - it allows the recipient to do anything he/she wishes. If that is your intention, then why bother about the license? It would be easier to release it as public domain software. Regards, Abe. -- Abe F. Kornelis, B.V. Bixoft Het Jaagpad 63, 3461 HA Linschoten The Netherlands phone: +31-6-22755401 To visit our website: either: http://www.bixoft.com or: http://www.bixoft.nl -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3