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On 11/8/10 8:27 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> On 06/11/10 19:19, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>> I'd like to present a new license. It's the "Kermit Public License". The
>> terms are identical with the MPL 1.1, the only difference being that
>> only Kermit can update the license. That's already the definition of the
>> license.
>
> Kermit the Frog?
>
>> I have used that in some source code in the past. I'd like mozilla.org
>> to approve this as license allowed to Mozilla source code.
>
> Let's say we say No. What is your response?
>
> (But I agree with Mike - you seem very much to be trolling. Which is not
> in character for you. If you have a point, come out and make it.)

Mike was also right that this is off-topic for this list. If you have 
specific objections to the license which might make it unsuitable for 
use by any project (including, but not limited to, Mozilla) then I'd 
love to hear about them here, so that we can try to address them before 
we release the license. But discussions of what licenses Mozilla will 
use, how Mozilla should pick a license, etc., are mostly off-topic here; 
governance@ will have a thorough discussion of the Mozilla project's 
policy when the time is right.

Luis

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