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Four New Open Source Licenses
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."
fp?
Anybody else heard rumors of some really big action planned for 9/22 ?
Well RMS is a fucking unwashed fool, so who cares what he thinks?
But will it mow my lawn?
Everyone seems to have forgotten BPL (Bouma Public License), the license under which BoumOS was released in 1988, later took by that dude, Tanembaum which later was ripped off by Linox Torvalds who released Linox.
Juan Epstein = jchristopher = pure shit
Give me Mike Bouma anyday!
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RMS is full of shit. Let's all use the GPL (Goatse Pubic License)
Sincerely, Mike Bouma
Who gives a shit about someone categorizing licenses they like and then telling the world about it, even to the point of trademarking a name? It's kinda like all those phony "web awards" that popped around the ~1995 or, in which everybody and their dog had their own award. They'd give these awards to anybody who received more hits than their site, and the high traffic site would link to the low traffic "award" site, thus increasing their traffic. The Open Source initiative is pretty much self serving masturbation.
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