[ba-unrev-talk] More Fwd: RE: A few here may have an opinion on this
>From: "Lawrence E. Rosen" <lrosen@rosenlaw.com>
>
>I also have a biased opinion. I'm mostly in agreement with Brian. But
>how about suggesting that the government license be the Academic Free
>License (AFL), which is fully compatible with the Open Software License
>(OSL), the GPL, and other proprietary and open source licenses.
>
>I think if you take everyone's mind off the GPL, maybe they won't
>realize they're doing things that can help the open source community.
>
>These two licenses (the AFL and OSL) are particularly important to us
>because they also address the patent problem.
>
>For the latest versions, go to:
>
> AFL: www.rosenlaw.com/afl1.2.html
>
> OSL: www.rosenlaw.com/osl1.1.html
>
>/Larry Rosen
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Behlendorf [mailto:brian@collab.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:42 PM
> > To: Benjamin J. Tilly
> > Cc: fsb@crynwr.com
> > Subject: Re: A few here may have an opinion on this
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Benjamin J. Tilly wrote:
> > > This movement is specifically aimed at keeping the
> > > government from distributing things like its security
> > enhancements for
> > > the Linux kernel.
> >
> > I don't support the intent at all, but I wonder if there's a
> > way the gov't could release those enhancements BSD-licensed
> > rather than GPL-licensed. That way the Linux redistributors
> > would have no problem incorporating those enhancements, *and*
> > those enhancements would be available to, say, the FreeBSD
> > developers to also consider using.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > (01)
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