[copyleft-next] Differences between 0.1.0 and 0.1.1

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Sat Feb 16 16:35:30 UTC 2013


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:29 AM,  <fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:
> vi) In the Apache License 2.0/MPL 2.0-derived subdefinition of
> "control" contained in the definition of "You", the language "the
> power, direct or indirect, to cause the direction or management of
> such entity" was changed to "the power to direct the actions of such
> entity", implementing a suggestion made by Pam Chestek. This is a bug
> in the Apache License 2.0, however minor; it is at best unidiomatic
> English to speak of "causing the direction or management" of
> something.

Merely as a matter of historical/genealogical interest, I believe that
language originates in Netscape Public License 1.0.

Luis


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