From: "Mathias Hasselmann" <Mathias.Hasselmann@gmx.de>
To: Rob Taylor <rob.taylor@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: License Questions
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:54:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070907205429.236670@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E13EE8.5050508@codethink.co.uk>
> > Maybe that password thing is a solution for making git repositories
> > OSL compliant?
>
> Oh dear, I just found out that Debian considers OSL 1.1 non-free, though
> not for this clause (which does seem particularly onerous), but for
> clause 10.
Yup, out of all GPL incompatible licenses choosing OSL 1.1 probably was the worst one Linus could choose. Maybe this stupid licensing choice explains why this pretty code which sparse is doesn't get the attention it deserves... :-(
> That could be a problem for us GLib guys, as that would force gnome into
> contrib!
Library use and such should be pretty ok for us - according to Linus' annotations in the LICENSE file...
Ciao,
Mathias
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 5:53 License Questions Mathias Hasselmann
2007-09-07 12:07 ` Rob Taylor
2007-09-07 15:24 ` Rob Taylor
2007-09-07 20:54 ` Mathias Hasselmann [this message]
2007-09-07 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
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