Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Savannah vs. Open Software License

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:51:27PM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> The Open Software License version 2.0 has been released:
> 
>       http://www.rosenlaw.com/osl2.0.html
> 
> the old version to diff(1) it with is at:
> 
>       http://www.rosenlaw.com/osl1.1.html
> 
> 
> Any point on its freeness/usability/goodness you would like to share?

No significant changes from 1.1 from a freeness standpoint. Some of
the language has been lawyerised, and the patent termination clause
has been made even more overbearing - it's now "any software patent
suit against the licensor or any patent suit relating to this
software" instead of "any patent suit against anything under this
license".

It's still horribly dangerous to use, because of the broad grant of
warranty. Lawyer-bait.

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