From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Franz Schrober Subject: [PATCHv2 4/5] FAQ: Remove outdated section about the license Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:16:21 +0100 Message-ID: <1385633782-775-5-git-send-email-franzschrober@gmail.com> References: <1385633782-775-1-git-send-email-franzschrober@gmail.com> Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f42.google.com ([209.85.214.42]:62557 "EHLO mail-bk0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756610Ab3K1KRC (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:17:02 -0500 Received: by mail-bk0-f42.google.com with SMTP id w11so3763138bkz.29 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 02:17:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1385633782-775-1-git-send-email-franzschrober@gmail.com> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org Cc: jw+debian@jameswestby.net, sparse@chrisli.org, franzschrober@gmail.com, Franz Schrober From: Franz Schrober Signed-off-by: Franz Schrober --- FAQ | 17 ----------------- 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 290de0e..56a2618 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -50,23 +50,6 @@ A. See the previous question: I personally think that the front end improvements back. That's your "quid" to my "quo". -Q. So what _is_ the license? - -A. I don't know yet. I originally thought it would be LGPL, but I'm - possibly going for a license that is _not_ subsumable by the GPL. - In other words, I don't want to see a GPL'd project suck in the - LGPL'd front-end, and then make changes to the front end under the - GPL (this is something that the LGPL expressly allows, and see the - previous question for why I think it's the _only_ thing that I will - not allow). - - The current front-runner is the OSL ("Open Software License", see - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl.php), together with a note on - what makes source derivative and what does not to make it clear that - people can write back-ends for it without having to make those - back-ends available under the OSL. -