[Geomoose-users] Re: Just went through the incubation committee meeting log.

[Eli Adam]

> 2) MIT based license
>
> You are running your own license here
> (http://geomoose.org/info/license.html) as such do you need it recognised by
> OSI? Or is MIT based enough?
>
> If you want we can ask the incubation committee - or you can just decide and
> tell us how it is :-)

Perhaps MIT 'based' is a misnomer.  A diff of
http://geomoose.org/info/license.html  and
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php produces:

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
+Copyright (c) 2009-2010, Dan “Ducky” Little & GeoMOOSE.org

 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

This makes it look like it *is* MIT rather than MIT *based*.

>
> 3) Um where is the source code? There is no link from your home page or
> download page - do you make a download of the source available for each
> release? Ah I found it by trial and error ...

Has been updated in trunk for a while.  Website is a snapshot
currently, will switch to auto-generation soon.

Thanks for the help, I think that Code Provenience is one of those
tasks that sounds worse than it is (and thus is avoided).

Eli