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aray on July 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: KORE – A fast SPDY-capable webserver for web devel...

Why the ISC license? The site just says "Kore is licensed under the ISC license allowing it to be used in both free and commercial products." but don't Apache 2, BSD, and MIT all satisfy this as well.

IANAL, but here's a quick summary of ISC vs MIT: http://www.tldrlegal.com/compare?a=MIT+License&b=ISC+License

protomyth on July 5, 2013 | [–]

OpenBSD went with ISC for new code: http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html

drdaeman on July 5, 2013 | [–]

Both of them suck because of BEING INFESTED WITH SCREAMING CAPS ALL THE WAY.

Even WTFPLv2 is not good.

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