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Richard Freeman posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:05:52 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> I think that this should at least be added. If some things are more |
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> conservatively labeled as v2 when it should be v2+ it doesn't cause all |
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> that much harm. Over time the licenses would get updated, and then we'd |
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> have more useful metadata. |
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I agree. The problem has been finding someone who cares enough about it |
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to push it thru the process. |
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Keep in mind that until recently, it wasn't really practical to do |
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anything (automated, at least) with the license metadata anyway, so |
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whether we had the "xxx+" license specifiers or not wasn't of any real |
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practical use anyway. Now that license sets are reasonably working, the |
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plus licenses would actually have a practical application. |
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So my guess is that in practice, mostly the same people (plus/minus) who |
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cared enough to pushed license sets thru from a proposal to working |
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practicality, will probably be the ones that, now that /that/ works, |
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will /eventually/ push plus licenses into the mix, for much the same |
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reason. |
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BTW, if there's a dev (or group) willing to lead such a thing, put my |
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name on the list as a user willing to put some time into doing the leg |
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(aka internet) work on it. I don't know how much, but I'm certainly |
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interested enough to want to follow developments, and will try to do some |
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of the leg work, as I can, for the interested devs to look over and |
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commit. |
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Gentoo's way of course is to use bugzilla, with a tracker bug. I guess |
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that's my permission to CC me. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |