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
next prev parent 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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