[copyleft-next] Section 4 and 7 - permissive license contenand development process

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Wed Feb 27 16:33:21 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:31:18AM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote:
> 
> Indeed, it's quite compact especially when you compare it to certain
> alternatives. I once created a modified version of the DCO for a
> project that (IIRC) made it a little shorter by combining two of its
> clauses into one. It might seem verbose if it were to be incorporated
> wholesale into an otherwise relatively-small license document, though,
> and I'm not sure how valuable that would be. 

Is there any need to combine them?  Keeping them separate might be the
better way to go.  After all, they serve quite distinct purposes,
don't they?

					- Ted


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