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Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> wrote: > Absolutely. And this "status quo" argument is why I think that it is > reasonable to keep the current licensing scheme; it has served Perl very, > very well. I think, in some cases, it has not served Perl as well as it might have. Namely, because the Artistic license is unclear. The OSI and the Debian group only reluctantly and with many reservations accepted the Artistic license as an open source license. The FSF has been unable to accept it as a free software license, and some of these reasons are brought up in the various RFCs I wrote. > If the AL can be changed to satsify some lawyers, It's not just lawyers. The changes I have proposed can help satisfy businesses, because it makes it more clear that they can charge money for redistributing perl. The current Artistic license is somewhat unclear on this issue. > while at the same time not becoming less readable (becoming more readable > would be better) and certainly not imposing any more of a burden on the > people who use it, then I am not opposed to it. Why do you feel the AL-2.0 that I proposed is less readable than the current one? It's sadly too late to make changes in this round, as it's Larry's hands, but I would like to hear from you how we might make it more readable and perhaps propose a modified RFC to Larry at a later time. -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhnThread Previous | Thread Next