Modifying Open Source Licenses

[Scott Elcomb]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
[...]
> Note that in the "Open Source Initiative" (the Eric Raymond thing
> about declaring what OSS is supposed to be about), this is
> specifically talked about:
>
> ------------------------
> 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
>
> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
> ------------------------

Thanks for the additional clarification.  I'm going to take Richard's
advice and sit on it for a few days.  After calming down a bit I
notice that the issue is probably about as old as mankind.  After all,
how many innocuous inventions have been subverted throughout history?


On an interestingly related note, it appears that RMS posted an
article (last night?) specifically about licensing JavaScript code.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

(One of the TiddlyWiki developers tipped off Ajaxian where I heard
about it under the name "Free The JavaScript.")

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