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Re: licenses in generated m4 files
From: |
Peter Simons |
Subject: |
Re: licenses in generated m4 files |
Date: |
18 Jan 2005 14:08:22 +0100 |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz writes:
>> Allowing a free-text field for the license essentially
>> equals allowing the author to choose any license he wants.
> No, it just means the field is not constrained by some
> tool.
Um, isn't that _exactly_ what I said above? If the field is
not constrained by some tool, who does constrain it?
>> In the general case, however, [using arbitrary licenses
>> is] not possible because not all licenses are compatible
>> with each other.
> Let's give the submitter some credit for basic
> intelligence.
It's not a matter of intelligence, it is a matter of
_effort_. I don't expect the user to read all licenses of
all macros and make educated guesses about which licenses he
may choose and which ones may cause trouble.
>> I'll need some sort of "comprehensive" list.
> The [policy] web page already gives one:
> | All macros accepted into the archive must be licensed
> | as free software. We accept any GPL-compatible license
> | [...]
The restriction to GPL-compatible licenses doesn't make much
sense, IMHO, if the archive itself doesn't come under GPL
any longer. In fact, I seem to recall that _you_ were
arguing in favor of accepting only the all-permissive one?
Peter
- Re: versioning macros, (continued)
- Re: versioning macros, Peter Simons, 2005/01/16
- Re: versioning macros, Bastiaan Veelo, 2005/01/17
- Re: versioning macros, Peter Simons, 2005/01/17
- Re: versioning macros, Stepan Kasal, 2005/01/17
- Re: versioning macros, Bastiaan Veelo, 2005/01/17
- licenses in generated m4 files (was: versioning macros), Peter Simons, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Guido Draheim, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files,
Peter Simons <=
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Bastiaan Veelo, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Tom Howard, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/18
- Permission (was Re: licenses in generated m4 files), Bastiaan Veelo, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Bastiaan Veelo, 2005/01/18