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Four New Open Source Licenses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-and-more-choices dept.

Russ Nelson writes "OSI has approved four new Open Source licenses. The X.Net is BSD with jurisdiction specified (note that RMS says that the GPL is not compatible with such licenses,) the New Artistic, currently that used by Perl (one paragraph added), the Sun Public License is Mozilla 1.1 with minor differences, and the Eiffel Forum License. We also modified the rationale for Open Source Definition clause 9 to remove the word "contaminate" referring to the action of the GPL."

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  1. Re:The Saturday that will live in infamy by cyberdonny · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Anybody else heard rumors of some really big action planned for 9/22 ?

    Yes, according to this article, there is indeed some risk. However, according to the same article, the FBI is aware of it, and are stepping up security. In any case, it'll be prudent to avoid planes, high-rises, subways and huge crowds.