OT: Opinion, best open source license to use?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:00:15PM -0400, Anthony de Boer wrote:
> I'd see that more as a clause that says that if you want to fork the
> software, you have to make it *CLEAR* that you're on a fork by also
> changing the name/icon/whatever.

Well others take the clause to also say "You can't change these graphics
in any way".

> I've seen things as small and stupid as some luser giving a Squid
> developer grief because advice including the place the project put some
> of its files wasn't "correct" on a Red Hat box because the distro
> modified things to their Linuxy places.

Well stupid user then.  Of course some projects really do have some
odd choices.  Anything by DJB for example. :)

> (The lack of agreement between various *ix flavours as to where stuff
> goes, /usr/local or /usr, /etc or /usr/local/etc, /opt, yadda yadda,
> is a mess in which would-be developers of portable software and
> users thereof can both blame the promulguators of this wide selection
> of standards.)

Unix is a mess.  At least linux with LSB and FHS is in a much better
state in general.

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Len Sorensen
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