On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 21:33:51 -0500 Glenn Maynard wrote:
> It seems that this license is actually doing two fundamentally
> distinct things: granting a license to people to do stuff, and making
> promises from the distributor/licensor. I think this combination is
> what makes it so confusing:
[...]
>
> I'm sure there's some way to make this stuff clearer for people used
> to more typical free licenses, but I'm not sure what it is.
Perhaps by
a) releasing the work under a real copyright license grant (such as the
Expat a.k.a. MIT license http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt)
*and*
b) offering in parallel an optional `uni-lateral' contract in which the
copyright holder promises things to anyone that is willing to accept the
contract.
In that case Debian would (probably) not accept the contract and simply
distribute under the Expat license.
And everyone would be happy...
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