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Ian Lance Taylor writes:
I'm sorry, I was thinking that you were talking about using an open
source license, and then claiming license fees on top of that. Now I
understand that you were just continuing your claim that requiring
license fees was compatible with open source. That's
For that matter, the Alternate Route Open Source License and the Alternate
Route Library Open Source License are very similar to the GPL and LGPL
license. In fact, the FSF has given the Washington State Department of
Transportation permission to base our license on theirs. We have been
waiting
Perhaps the OSI board should have "cherry-picked" different licenses for
review than the ones it did select. Whenever judgment calls are made, there
is the opportunity to make them wrongly. I can only assure you that there
has been no intention to harm any contributor.
I am attaching the list
Lawrence E. Rosen writes:
One thing I ask you to consider: License review, even for what you think are
simple licenses, is not taken lightly by the *volunteer* OSI board. The
board has to read the licenses carefully. There is no such thing as a "slam
dunk" approval.
Sure there is:
From Lawrence E. Rosen:
My own suggestions for prioritizing are these:
* Is the license sufficiently different from one of the licenses already
approved that we shouldn't simply encourage the submitter to use another
already-approved license?
With all due and considerable respect to Lawrence
Gentle people,
I submitted my company's Open Source license almost
a month ago, and resent it a week ago, yet I have
received no response, and nothing of it has appeared
on the discussion list.
It's not controversial. Did I do something wrong?
Should I send it again?
Carter
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