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by em-bee 856 days ago
yes, it is easy to come up with a change that seems to make sense. but it is not at all easy to vet that change legally. and no: "we have talked to our lawyers about this" is not enough. your lawyers operate in your interest. they are not operating in the interest of the Free Software or Open Source definitions. the bar for a license that would be acceptable to OSI is much much higher. and my claim that it is not easy to come up with a new license is based on that.