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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:31:46PM +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: |
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> Torsten Veller wrote: |
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> > Why do we add a license to the licenses/ dir? |
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> ;) |
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> > Does the language of the license matter? (selfhtml is in german) |
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> IMVHO: yes. I don't understand German, but English yes. |
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> > Aren't MIT and MetaKit and ... the same license? |
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> > Aren't X11 and cdegood and JamesClark and ... the same license? |
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> > Should the licenses/ dir be cleaned? |
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> > (Should placeholders be used as in MIT?) |
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> Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then: |
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> ln -s MIT MetaKit |
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I don't know about this specific case but generally speaking licenses |
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that're similar in language and intent have very small (often cosmetic) |
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differences; if there is even the slightest difference it (legally) |
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qualifies as a different license and probably really should be included |
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separately to be safe |
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Jon Portnoy |
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