[dev] License discussion

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
> By chance I heard about some conflicts between Richard Stallman from FSF and 
> Ulrich Drepper (glibc maintainer) that already made some open source projects 
> switch to other licenses.
> 
> As I don't have much knowledge about all these open source licenses I 
> just want to start a discussion if this is something we should think about.

We have too many external patches to allow us to switch licenses,
even if we wanted to (unless only people in the copyright headers
count?)

Personally, I prefer the BSD license; less hassle all around.

Anil