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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Licenses - Confusion
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:28:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8309261FB98F4DD9B3CA9A27C71C612E@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519E8BD2.2070502@glondu.net>

Le jeudi, 23 mai 2013 à 22:36, Stéphane Glondu a écrit :
> Humans don't care about licenses.


That must be the reason we are discussing them.  


Le jeudi, 23 mai 2013 à 22:07, Marek Kubica a écrit :
> I read the GPL2 some time ago and found it not that difficult to
> understand, actually.


Oh yes me too. The big question is whether you actually understand it that the same way a lawyer would --- my guess is no.  


Le jeudi, 23 mai 2013 à 22:39, Ernesto Posse a écrit :
> I'm afraid this is a little bit too naive. I am not a lawyer, and I agree that the GPL is quite unreadable, but the choice of licence does matter, and has real consequences.


If you read me correctly I never said that the choice didn't matter. I was asking for licenses that are reasonably understandable without needing a lawyer.  

> A BSD or MIT licence is very permissive, but one could argue that they is too permissive, with no attribution required for example.  

That assertion is wrong for BSD{2,3} (clause 2).


Le jeudi, 23 mai 2013 à 23:11, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
> The topic you raise here is fairly complex, so I'd be weary of
> "certainty" if I were you :)

True.




Best,

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-23 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22 12:34 oliver
2013-05-22 12:39 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-05-22 16:40   ` Marek Kubica
2013-05-22 13:02 ` Török Edwin
2013-05-22 17:19   ` Adrien Nader
2013-05-23  6:36     ` Stéphane Glondu
2013-05-23  8:41       ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-05-23 21:07         ` Marek Kubica
2013-05-23 21:36         ` Stéphane Glondu
2013-05-23 22:28           ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2013-05-23 21:39         ` Ernesto Posse
2013-05-23 21:45         ` Chet Murthy
2013-05-23 22:11         ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2013-05-23 22:52   ` oliver

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