[copyleft-next] Differences between 0.1.0 and 0.1.1

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Sat Feb 16 16:52:51 UTC 2013


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:35:30AM -0800, Luis Villa wrote:
> 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.

Ah. It was no doubt idiomatic English in 1998 but ceased being so by
2004. :-)

- RF



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