www/licenses license-recommendations.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/06/19 19:36:35

Modified files:
        licenses       : license-recommendations.html 

Log message:
        Use the term "pushover".

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/license-recommendations.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.24&r2=1.25

Patches:
Index: license-recommendations.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/license-recommendations.html,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -b -r1.24 -r1.25
--- license-recommendations.html        12 Apr 2014 12:39:52 -0000      1.24
+++ license-recommendations.html        19 Jun 2014 19:36:23 -0000      1.25
@@ -86,17 +86,17 @@
 copyleft on the project's code would do.</p>
 
 <p>In these special situations where copyleft is not appropriate, we recommend
-the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>Apache License 
2.0</a>.  This is a permissive, non-protective
+the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>Apache License 
2.0</a>.  This is a pushover (non-copyleft)
 software license that has terms to prevent contributors and distributors
 from suing for patent infringement.  This doesn't make the software immune
 to threats from patents, but it does prevent patent holders from setting up a
 &ldquo;bait and switch&rdquo; where they release the software under free
-terms, but require recipients to agree to royalties or other nonfree terms
+terms then require recipients to agree to nonfree terms
 in a patent license.</p>
 
 <p>In all other cases, we recommend some kind of copyleft.  If your project is
 a library, and developers are already using an established alternative library
-released under a nonfree or permissive license, then we recommend using
+released under a nonfree license or a lax pushover license, then we recommend 
using
 the <a href="/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public License 
(LGPL)</a>.  Unlike the case
 discussed earlier where the project implements a standard, here adoption
 for its own sake will not accomplish any particular goal, so there's no
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:39:52 $
+$Date: 2014/06/19 19:36:23 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>