* Commentary on the OPL
@ 2005-06-16 12:38 Jonathan Larmour
2005-06-22 9:19 ` Andrew Lunn
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From: Jonathan Larmour @ 2005-06-16 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: eCos Maintainers
We use the Open Publications Licence for our docs as you know. I've
stumbled across this interesting commentary on it. It's quite interesting,
to me at least :)...
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/10/07/OSlicenses_part2.html
Jifl
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* Re: Commentary on the OPL
2005-06-16 12:38 Commentary on the OPL Jonathan Larmour
@ 2005-06-22 9:19 ` Andrew Lunn
2005-06-22 11:10 ` Jonathan Larmour
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From: Andrew Lunn @ 2005-06-22 9:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Larmour; +Cc: eCos Maintainers
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> We use the Open Publications Licence for our docs as you know. I've
> stumbled across this interesting commentary on it. It's quite interesting,
> to me at least :)...
Was there some requirement for FSF that we change license?
Andrew
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* Re: Commentary on the OPL
2005-06-22 9:19 ` Andrew Lunn
@ 2005-06-22 11:10 ` Jonathan Larmour
2005-06-22 11:16 ` Andrew Lunn
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From: Jonathan Larmour @ 2005-06-22 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Lunn; +Cc: eCos Maintainers
Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:40:31PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>
>>We use the Open Publications Licence for our docs as you know. I've
>>stumbled across this interesting commentary on it. It's quite interesting,
>>to me at least :)...
>
>
> Was there some requirement for FSF that we change license?
Not yet. But they may either try to insist, or at least argue strongly
that we use the FDL. If the latter then we'd have to have a strong belief
that we're using the most appropriate licence. That commentary undermines
some of that belief, to me at least.
Not that the FDL seems very good either. I have concerns, shared by others
on the net, about how "Free" the FDL is. For example, how Free is it in
section 4 <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>. There's a whole load of
things that restrict freedom there, and a "modification" need only be trivial.
It's very different to the GPL in principle. The GPL is all about the
freedom to modify. The FDL is all about restrictions on that.
Jifl
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* Re: Commentary on the OPL
2005-06-22 11:10 ` Jonathan Larmour
@ 2005-06-22 11:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2005-06-22 11:29 ` Jonathan Larmour
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From: Andrew Lunn @ 2005-06-22 11:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Larmour; +Cc: eCos Maintainers
While we are on the subject of FSF, is it time to ping somebody again?
Andrew
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* Re: Commentary on the OPL
2005-06-22 11:16 ` Andrew Lunn
@ 2005-06-22 11:29 ` Jonathan Larmour
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From: Jonathan Larmour @ 2005-06-22 11:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Lunn; +Cc: eCos Maintainers
Andrew Lunn wrote:
> While we are on the subject of FSF, is it time to ping somebody again?
Yep. It was, as per my earlier mail which presumably you're remembering
:). Mark W should (hopefully!) be looking at it this week, but as per that
earlier mail I have sent a reminder anyway.
Jifl
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