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["William A. Rowe Jr." <wmrowe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/19/2010 11:22 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> 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.
> 
> IMNSHO, you *really* don't want to do that.  You'd be leaping
> into the world of 'licence proliferation,' which is a maze
> of twisty little passages containing monsters.

Well put.

More to the point, anyone still confused on the delta between 'new' BSD
and AL 2.0 might want to skim this online chapter from O'Reilly press;

http://oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/ch02.pdf