So, the Creative Commons licenses are not OSI-approved: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
I think there are two licenses that meet the Open Source Definition: the Attribution license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ...and the Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ (Why the other licenses would not be Open Source is left as an exercise to the reader.) In discussing this on the Creative Commons cc-licenses list, one commenter thought that the Attribution license element* would not meet the OSD. http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2004-June/000898.html The Attribution license element requires that the upstream creator's copyright notices be kept intact; that their names or pseudonyms, if provided, be included in the work where other authors' names are, as best as possible for the medium; and that an URL for license and copyright info be included. (This is a summary, and the details are much better explained in the legal text of the licenses, which can be found at the URLs above. Some people compare this requirement to the notorious "obnoxious BSD advertising clause". I disagree, at least about the obnoxious part, but that's just me.) ANYWAYS, my correspondent said that a previous license that had similar attribution requirements was refused approval. My question to the audience is: does anyone remember this incident? Is there something about requiring attribution that's not OSD-compatible? ~ESP * Creative Commons has a suite of licenses, with mix-and-match license elements. -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wikitravel - http://wikitravel.org/en/ The free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3