[haiku-development] Re: Ticket 2649 - License name is misleading
- From: "Niels Reedijk" <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:46:13 +0200
2008/10/24 scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Seeing that this ticket was filed 2 months ago and it's listed as a
> blocker, I figured I'd kick off discussion here.
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/2649
>
> While working on porting the Allegro gaming library to Haiku, I signed
> up to their mailing list. This week they've been discussing which
> license to use for Allegro5 which is due soon. Among the top 3 being
> discussed there are MIT, BSD 2 clause and Zlib. I hadn't read the
> Zlib one until today, but all three of these say nearly the same
> thing.
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
> Here's the Zlib one:
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php
> Let's see if we can discuss this, come to a decision and drive this
> ticket to closure.
What exactly do you think we should discuss?
Whether to change the license? This is out of the question. The
license is the MIT license (as registered at the OSI), and unless
there is a compelling reason to change this, I do not think this issue
is on the table.
So the only task resulting from that ticket is to check whether all
the docs and about windows actually have a good reference to the
license, possibly linking to the OSI site.
N.
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