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["Jay R. Wren" <jrwren@xxxxxxxx>]

I'd encourage you to realize that this is a strawman point you are making.

You don't have to be a master mechanic to choose a car.

You don't have to be a lawyer to choose a license.

--
Jay

On 5/18/2010 2:32 PM, Mark Stone wrote:
> Developers arguing choice of license makes about as much sense as
> lawyers arguing choice of programming language. Until we are in a
> position to have real legal counsel, we should use the least
> restrictive, most permissive, most minimalist license possible so that
> we give ourselves maximum flexibility to adapt later on.
>
> That would be New BSD.
>
> -Mark
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Ted Bullock <tbullock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>> On 18/05/2010 11:58 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
>>     
>>> On 5/18/2010 12:55 PM, Ted Bullock wrote:
>>>       
>>>> For instance here is the ISC license, it is small, easy to understand,
>>>> and I never ever get confused about what my responsibilities are.
>>>> """
>>>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
>>>> purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
>>>> copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
>>>>         
>>>    """
>>>
>>> Where are you granted use of applicable patents?
>>>       
>> You aren't then again I'm pretty sure there was patent language in the
>> codeplex agreement.
>>
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