Re: [ode] Comments on the OSR


Wade Hampton (whampton@staffnet.com)
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:08:05 -0500


Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> I asked our lawyer what he thinks about whether making our licenses
> some kind of official standard would make it reliable to refer to them.
>
> One difficulty is that the standards body might decide to make their own
> changes in the license before adopting it. They are of course free
> to write their own license, but we would probably stick to our version
> for GNU software.
I don't think they could modify it (except for maybe a removable header
identifying it as a standard, or such). For it to really be usable as
as standard and for compatibility, it would have to be adopted, as is,
in its entirity. The "standard" version should be identical in all
respects to yours (with the possible exception of some header text
that is not part of the actual license).

My 2 cents.

Cheers,

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