Closed mlinksva closed 9 years ago
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My inclination is to word it sort of like:
"The license should aim for compatibility with…"
and perhaps
"The license should avoid [extraneous] conditions that would create incompatibilities with other Open licenses"
Basically, the point is something like "Any clause that creates incompatibilities should require justification and careful consideration."
Essentially, "consider compatibility with other Open licenses as a high priority, and do not carelessly introduce incompatible terms."
I hope some of this perspective and writing can be used / adapted into this concern which I basically agree with.
Closing as we don't need renumbering, will use the added text in section 2 intro
Addressing #77
I continue to think compatibility an important issue and that the definition is by far the most powerful venue this group has, so should (heh) be mentioned there.
We have other _should_s in the definition, this one is as important.
I've kept this very brief:
Some obvious ways to extend:
or
However I tend to think generality is good here, message should not prompt thinking of excuses (which ...policy ends... does) nor narrowness (which ...copyleft licesnes does).