Rick Moen wrote: > I certainly never turn up my nose if someone offers me promissory > estoppel, but I'm not sure a licence steward venting an amateur > opinion[1] about the copyrightability of his/her creation establishes > estoppel.
Let me suggest a way around this issue. Remember that I started this thread after someone at Apache asked for permission to modify our license. It would help everyone if we could simply point to the OSI website and say that "Every open source license published on the OSI website (including the Apache License) is distributed by OSI under CC0. Help yourself! Knock yourself out!" Is there any license steward who would care (or is alive to care) about OSI simply making that declaration on its website -- and, by the way, taking responsibility for doing so on behalf of all open source license authors who are dead or don't care? Then every OSI-approved license could serve as a model license. If OSI did that, then Apache and others could simply refer anyone who feels the urge to modify our open source license to come here for model agreements. That would also be an opportune time to dissuade people from actually doing so by educating them about the horrors of license proliferation. /Larry _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss