[csw-maintainers] [POLICY] Policy-team, policy docs, licenses

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Wed Feb 9 09:46:51 CET 2011


Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> 2011/2/8 Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
>> Peter (F) and Phil, since you've volunteered for the policy-team,
>> could you review my proposed code change?
>>
>> http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2011-February/013970.html
>>
>
> oh yikes. That brings up another issue... I dont recall that everyone
> agreed on a "license" for our docs & policies.
>
> If you insist on copying things verbatim from the debian one, we may
> get theirs imposed on us. the whole viralness of GPL.
> If on the other hand, we dont copy, then we are free to choose our own
> at a later date.

The "viralness" of the GPL is almost FUD --- I say "almost" because
IANAL. 

BTW, what's wrong with GPL concerning the document describing
our policies?

-- 
Peter


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