Jesse Schell scripsit: > I believe the license was loosely based on the Apple Public Source > License. The lawyer who drafted the Panda3D license left the company > some time ago, and I haven't been able to reach him. Obviously, the > Apple license itself wouldn't suffice, since it explicitly names Apple, > where the Panda3D license names Disney instead.
If you globally replace "Apple" with "Disney", the result will be trivially Open Source and will be no problem. It's possible that Apple might object, but not very likely. > 4. [...] > An electronic copy of the source code for all modifications > made to the Software are to be forwarded to Licensor at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] within 90 days of the date of the > modifications. Clauses like this are unreasonably burdensome on the makers of distros, who typically have to make hundreds of patches to get everything working together. Having to send hundreds of copies of source code to different locations every time there is a new release is just too hard. The license should be changed to require that the licensor be notified of the location from which modifications can be downloaded. In that way, there is only a single transmission required from the licensee, not a whole series of them. If this problem is fixed, I see no problems with OSI approval. IANAL, TINLA, IANA OSI board member either. -- You let them out again, Old Man Willow! John Cowan What you be a-thinking of? You should not be waking! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water! Go to sleep! www.reutershealth.com Bombadil is talking. www.ccil.org/~cowan -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3