We have met the enemy and he is us ...

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.6K blaze of typing glory, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I was just scanning the latest issue of Debian Weekly News:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/09/
> 
> Look toward the bottom. There is now a problem with a "new, improved" 
> Apache license. The Mozilla org is now trying to put silly limitations 
> on packaging their stuff. Add this on top of the XFree86 license debacle.
> 
> I fear we're going to witness an implosion.
> 
> Tell me I'm over-reacting ...

First, I'd consider the source. Debian is the officially-blessed GNU
distribution. Secondly, I wondered if something like this might happen
when people and organizations started creating their own licenses
willy-nilly instead of going with one of the older, more widely-recognized
licenses.

Kurt
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