PROPOSAL: licensing guidelines

Erik Troan ewt at redhat.com
Wed May 17 06:19:10 PDT 2000


On Tue, 16 May 2000, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

>  - Free Standards Group specifications will be published on the internet
>    (under a zero cost and non-restrictive license).
> 
>  - Free Standards Group software will be published on the internet
>    (under an Open Source license).  This includes both test suite and
>    sample implementations.
add:  (under a zero cost and non-restrictive license).

>    - Clause 9. License Must Not Contaminate Other Software.
> 
>       While using the GPL for libraries is conformant with this OSD
>       requirement, we do not want the runtime linking of any GPL
>       libraries to be required for conformance with our standards.

This probably excludes QPL.

Erik

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