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OSI APSL Response

Posted by justin++ on from the boatload-of-acronyms dept.

Rubinstien writes "Eric Raymond has issued a brief response in which he claims that Bruce Perens and others are mistaken in criticizing the Apple Public Source License and OSI's endorsement of it. " I knew this was going to be hairy.

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  1. I spoke with people at Apple today by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4
    I spoke with Apple's director of operating systems development, and with the specific person responsible for Open Source development at Apple.

    They acknowledge that they have not defined Affected Original Code well, and they should do so. That would help with the termination issue. We also discussed the notification issue, and they seemed receptive about that.

    One point I try to make with every company is that these licenses are executed by hackers, not lawyers, not even people who have easy access to lawyers. Those hackers have to be able to read the license, and it should be unambiguous to them. The folks at Apple accept that point.

    So, at least Apple isn't telling me that I'm blowing smoke. It wouldn't hurt Eric to help ask for these simple changes.

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.