17 Jan
2007
17 Jan
'07
6:26 p.m.
2007/1/17, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
not necessary - call it what you feel like calling it. Who made those two organisations the sole arbiters of what is what?
Agreed, but those are the two organisations who defined these two terms
"Open Source" and "Free Software" so if they accept that your license is according to the FOSS defintion others believe you and it removes the headache of other developers in using your code. If FSF says it is a "GPL compatible Free Software license" then anyone can mix and match your code and other GPLed code out there.
If you don't do it then everyone who are going to make use of your code will have to spent time on deciding compatibility and worry about legality.
Cheers Praveen
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