Re: [Bitpim-devel] BitPim license change

[Chris C. <cle...@oc...>]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Roger Binns wrote:

> With the 0.7 release of BitPim, the license will be changing to
> the Open Source License.
> 
>   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-2.0.php
> 
> I have contacted all the copyright holders and they have all agreed.
> If anyone can see any issues, please speak up now.
> 
> What brought this on was someone doing a BitPim0.62 for vx6000
> that stretched some provisions of the Artistic License that
> BitPim was under.  That wouldn't have been too big a deal except
> for two problems.  One is that their "bug and portability fixes"
> actually introduced new bugs,

How did this stretch the Artistic License?

> and that their version is indistinguishable
> from the real BitPim (there is a one line change in the about box
> only).  I am the one that ends up with the emails and support
> requests so this gets to be a big problem.

How does the change to OSL mitigate future similar occurrences?

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