On the EUPL

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> This was my first concern when I saw the announcement. They referred
> to "an in-depth analysis of existing licenses", but I have seen no
> evidence they  are even aware of the strong message from both FSF and
> OSI that creating new licenses is usually inferior to choosing an
> existing, well-understood recommended one.

It looks like that "in-depth" analysis couldn't be anything but a few
google searches leading into one too-many GPL vs BSD flame wars. So in
order to avoid choosing a side, the decision would be to create a new
one.

Absurd, but seems to me the most likely case.

Rui

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