Re: [ox-en] earliest open source licence

• From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <mako debian.org>
• Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:25:13 -0800

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:09:15AM [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Martin Hardie wrote:

Total self interest here ... when was the first Floss type licence?
which one?
the GPL??

I think it's reasonable to assume that most of the first FLOSS
licenses were basic "do whatever you want with this software" now sort
of "BSD type" licenses.

There were "proto-GPL" copyleft text floating around in the seventies
I believe but it was not really a license. It was more like "in order
to use this software, you must join my software sharing commune."

Regards,
Mako

-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
mako debian.org
http://mako.yukidoke.org/

• References:
  • [ox-en] A word from SCO
    • From: johan soderberg
  • [ox-en] earliest open source licence
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