From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-11-09T02:13:26+09:00
Subject: Re: which open source licence?

Two points:

1) The original posters question about an open source license that
requires publication and sharing of modifications

This is the RECIPROCAL PUBLIC LICENSE

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/rpl.php

It is open source but not free software.  Some people are
interchanging the two concepts.

Whether or not the RPL can stand up in court (it probably can't) does
not prevent the OSI from listing it as an 'open source' license.

2)  Do we really need a flame war every time someone asks a licensing
question?  Seriously, I doubt the value of these long heated debates
(though I myself have participated in them in the past) and I feel
like they take away from the otherwise productive nature of this
group.

If we're going to flame on about licenses, we should probably rename
the thread to reflect that so that we don't get the answer to the OP's
question lost.

Or we should go rant somewhere else.  Is there a licensing mailing
list / newsgroup?
If so... I'd love to flame on over there ;)