Re: libpng license 2.0

"Matthias B." <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Sep 2018 17:28:43 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.devel
Message-ID <20180907172843.31b53862@ninja>
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 16:19:12 -0400
Cosmin Truta <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, everyone,
> 
> For the future releases of libpng, I would like to introduce the
> libpng license 2.0 (i.e. the "PNG Reference Library License 2.0").
> 
> My plan is to release the upcoming libpng-1.6.36 under this new
> license. What do you think?
> 

I think inventing a new license is an absolute disaster. If you want to
change the license, switch to an existing OSI-approved one.

MSB

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