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Re: Obnoxious license

Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Fri, 14 August 2009 04:07 UTC

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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Why not have these "stable" licences published in RFCs?  Those are 
> already an archival format, so the reference is then not ambiguous. The 
> code could then just include a  [RFCnnnn] reference, I guess?

+1

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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