Re: [OctDev] removal of non-standard licenses in Octave Forge

[Juan P. C. <aju...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Carnë Draug <car...@gm...> wrote:
> On 28 October 2012 19:13, Carnë Draug <car...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> we have a couple of files in Octave Forge with non-standard licenses.
>> This is bad. Being able to give it a recognisable name not only eases
>> our organisation but also its acceptance by downstream package
>> maintainers such as Debian. From Debian's upstream guide "Please do
>> not write your own license text if you can at all avoid it. Depending
>> on your wishes, the GPL, LGPL or a BSD-style license will most likely
>> be appropriate, and it is far easier to tell whether something is
>> allowed if we can look at past discussions of the same text. "
>>
>> I believe that in most cases such user-made licenses are not made
>> because there's no appropriate license out there, but out of
>> indifference for the subject and belief on others better part. For
>> example, some functions in the image package have the following
>> license "This code has no warrany whatsoever. Do what you like with
>> this code as long as you leave this copyright in place" which could
>> easily be replaced by something such as the simplified BSD, FreeBSD or
>> ICS license which I have already suggested to the original author.
>>
>> I'd like to propose that we no longer accept such non-standard
>> licenses and propose this list
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses as
>> the ones that are acceptable. Does anyone oppose to such change?
>>
>> Carnë
>
> After 1 week there has been no opposition.
>
> >From now on, only code under a license listed on
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
> will be released through Octave Forge.
>
> Carnë
>
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Thank you Carnë

Some people may find this table easier to read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF-approved_software_licenses