[bip] Please, no further license discussion on the list.

[Brandon King]

I was beginning to think the same thing. I suggest we create a 
bip-technical mailing list, which would be used when a topic matters to 
some people, but not everyone on this list may care about it. Like the 
licensing discussion. Personally, I enjoy these discussions, but know 
not everyone on this list would. Oh, after reading Titus' response 
further, I guess I am seconding the new list.

-Brandon

Titus Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've gotten a number of requests to cut off the license discussion.  So,
> I propose that we stick with requiring a BSD license for code submitted
> to the Wiki and a CC license for text submitted to the Wiki.  I further
> propose to revisit it in 6 months time, if (and only if)
>
>  - anyone feels that strongly that these licenses are inhibiting them
>    from actually posting code and text
>    
> or
>
>  - off-list people contact one of us to express concern about the
>    license, because they have an existing body of code or tutorials
>    that they want to contribute
>
> Either of those circumstances would be sufficient reason to revisit the
> issue, but until we actually have a problem, it's difficult to discuss
> in concrete terms!
>
> An alternative -- and please e-mail me privately if you would like me to
> do this -- is to create another list where those people who are
> interested in discussing license and copyright issues can do so.  I
> would be happy to do this (and I would certainly participate in such
> discussions.)
>
> If you have other alternatives to propose, please e-mail me privately
> and I will summarize to the list.
>
> cheers,
> --titus
>
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