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Re: Choice of License.

 

> I'm still asking with legitimate interest, what conflict? Can you actually
> cite either a lawyer or prominent OSS individual's research on this topic,

I meant within our community not in open source in general. It seems
some want BSD others want APL. I personally don't care which however I
figured I should mention such an idea as an alternative so that
everyone is happy.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:03 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wmrowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/18/2010 9:54 PM, Andrew Fenn wrote:
>> Since there is a conflict between APL 2.0 and BSD how about a
>> compromise. We could use the BSD license and attach a patent clause to
>> it.
>
> Hmmm?
>
> I'm still asking with legitimate interest, what conflict?  Can you actually
> cite either a lawyer or prominent OSS individual's research on this topic,
> other than Theo?  I'm asking both because I'm not fond of technical nor legal
> FUD, and because if there is a problem with the AL I'd like to point it out
> to the relevant lawyers for when its revisited again.
>
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