From: Rahul <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: What is the mkisofs license?]
To: fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:45:22 +0530
Bill Nottingham wrote:
I suspect the number of users/developers that would migrate due
to the 'fully FSF free' addition over just 'fully open source' would
be minimal at best - the biggest bang is going the 'fully open source'
route.
If it's just a issue of popularity, we might just agree with ESR .
Anyway it is better to know what we would lose in terms of packages or
other issues rather than talking about it abstractly.
Lets run the analysis and get the results. openmotif for example isnt
even a open source license
http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html
Please have a look at the openmotif license. I do not think, that this
is really a problem:
--- excerpt ---
2. GRANT OF RIGHTS
The rights granted under this license are limited solely to distribution
and sublicensing of the Contribution(s) on, with, or for operating
systems which are themselves Open Source programs. Contact The Open
Group for a license allowing distribution and sublicensing of the
Original Program on, with, or for operating systems which are not Open
Source programs.
--- excerpt ---
Thomas
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