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From: Krzysiek Pawlik <krzysiek.pawlik@people.pl>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:00:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B01879.6090804@people.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050615113908.GA17719@cerberus.oppresses.us>

Jon Portnoy wrote:
>>Symlink? If MIT == MetaKit, then:
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>ln -s MIT MetaKit
> I don't know about this specific case but generally speaking licenses 
> that're similar in language and intent have very small (often cosmetic) 
> differences; if there is even the slightest difference it (legally) 
> qualifies as a different license and probably really should be included 
> separately to be safe

Exactly my point :) I've looked at MIT and MetaKit and:

+Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Jean-Claude Wippler
-Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Except formatting and above diff theye are identical.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-15 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-15 11:18 [gentoo-dev] Questions about licenses Torsten Veller
2005-06-15 11:31 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 11:39   ` Jon Portnoy
2005-06-15 12:00     ` Krzysiek Pawlik [this message]
2005-06-15 12:14       ` Jon Portnoy
2005-06-15 12:29         ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 14:02   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-06-15 14:07     ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-06-15 11:44 ` Patrick Lauer
2005-06-15 14:04   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-06-15 16:26     ` Maurice van der Pot
2005-06-15 18:38       ` Chris Bainbridge
2005-06-15 19:06         ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-06-16 22:12   ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2005-06-16 23:06     ` Marius Mauch
2005-06-17 10:09       ` Chris Bainbridge

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