Noah Slater wrote:
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:54:06PM -0500, "Andrés G. Aragoneses" wrote:
So, should I start in this mailing-list the discussion and elaborate on the motivations of why this new license is needed and why the existing licenses do not fit with this model? Or should I contact other FSF staff via other means? Any FSF member reading?
I'm an associate member, and I know some staffers. Does that count? ;)
Perfect, I invite you to participate on the discussion, as I posted the ideas in a new thread (following advice from Stefano and Alessandro). Could you also tell the staffers you know to post their opinions?
My advice to you would be to email licensing@fsf.org and see what they think.
Well, I think I already contacted them via this email, but I was replied by only one person (which turns out to belong to one of the "reluctant" groups I talk about in the new thread) and I think this needs to be discussed in a global way like a mailing list.
You might also want to contact the OSI about this.
As far as I understand, OSI is more oriented to less-restrictive open source licenses, right? Then I guess they wouldn't be very interested.
Thanks.