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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com> | 2003-03-23 19:20:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-07 20:59:38 -0700 |
| commit | 306d32b423ca33d03eacb45f47d0f72788969eb6 (patch) | |
| tree | ab28bdecf0060d2ba133faf5e510305239612370 /LICENSE | |
| parent | 724d653f51eac7c6428cc0b8e1dc85d9c6f2cfb2 (diff) | |
| download | sparse-dev-306d32b423ca33d03eacb45f47d0f72788969eb6.tar.gz | |
After talking to Eric Raymond and Jeff Garzik, the current license
front-runner is the OSL v1.1 ("Open Software License") together with
a note on what is derivative and what is not.
Update the FAQ/LICENSE file to reflect that.
Diffstat (limited to 'LICENSE')
| -rw-r--r-- | LICENSE | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ properties: require that too in perpetuam (ie anti-GPL in that respects, and this means that it's almost certainly not going to be LGPL) -and, if possible: +At this point, the most likely candidate is the OSL: - - it will be "open source(tm)" compatible as far as I can tell, - although if the anti-GPL part ends up being a problem, I may not care - enough to conform fully to OSI guidelines. Will need to check with - the OSI guys. + http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl.php + +with an addendum of explaining the "derivative works" issue (ie making +sure that pure back-ends are _not_ derivative works, and the only source +that is derivative of this is the stuff needed to build a +self-sufficient front-end that can parse the language). In the meantime, if you agree with the above, and expect to agree with whatever license I will choose with the above in mind, you can play with |