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- To: "Winchel 'Todd' Vincent III" <winchel@mindspring.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] General Public License for DTD and Schema
- From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:00:19 -0800
- Thread-index: AcKRfZd+fHoKuDoXRlyBMgBZZGi2AgAAXlJg
- Thread-topic: [xml-dev] General Public License for DTD and Schema
I've never heard of a GPL category of licenses before. Looking at the OSI web page I see that they still refer to their licenses as "Open Source Licenses" not GPLs. It looks like you are taking a common term and applying your own unique interpretation of it which is potentially confusing to users.
Besides the above observation I don't have any more feedback on the license.
-----Original Message-----
From: Winchel 'Todd' Vincent III [mailto:winchel@mindspring.com]
Sent: Thu 11/21/2002 8:46 AM
To: Dare Obasanjo; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] General Public License for DTD and Schema
> Does your license have anything to do with the GNU General public
License[0] or is it unrelated and thus potentially extremely confusing to
users?
>
> [0] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
The GNU GPL is a specific license. I consider the term "GPL" to refer to
many licenses that can logically be categorized as a particular type. For
example, there are a number of GPLs, each similar, but slightly different,
located at http://www.opensource.org. By contrast, there are a many
different software End User License Agreements ("EULAs"). The Microsoft
EULA for Windows XP is a specific license. "EULA" is a category for
licenses of this type.
The GNU GPL is tailored for open source software. The license I just posted
is similar to the GNU GPL in that both fit into the GPL category, but the
license just posted is tailored specifically for schema.
Todd
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