Seems that I was wrong about linking back at least when it comes to Black Duck's Top 20 list: http://osrc.blackducksoftware.com/data/licenses/index.php
In this case, it seems we could simply refer to the Black Duck list as a somewhat authoritative source of most popular licenses. Any other credible research facility producing a similar list that links back to the license on opensource.org is also welcome. henrik On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Henrik Ingo <henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi> wrote: > Larry, I think the text below is a constructive proposal. I understand > (and to me that's perfectly fine) that Luis does not intend to change > the short list of popular licenses at this time, yet when that is up > for discussion I think the below is one good route out of this. > > In terms of usability it's unfortunate that the FSF, Black Duck etc do > not link back to the opensource.org pages for each license, so it is > still worthwile if we can agree on a list of our own that would do > exactly that. (Of course, we might not agree, but there's a point in > trying...) > > I just wanted to throw in another thought for when that day comes. A > current issue for me is not so much picking one good license for my > own project, rather let's say I develop software for some use case > (for me web and SaaS software) and I'd like a lawyer to pre-approve a > list of licenses out of which I can freely consume FOSS software for > that use case. Now it is in my interest to get a list that looks > short, yet covers as much FOSS software as possible. > > Of course, I can use resources like Black Duck to get such a list, but > if it would be possible for OSI to agree on and host a page which > starts with the sentence: "Based on studies [footnote1, footnote2...] > we believe that more than 90% of open source software ever published > uses one of the following licenses:" > > Then it would of course start with GPLv2, the other GPLs, Apache, BSD, > MIT, Mozilla, Eclipse etc... > > My point is that to me it doesn't really matter whether those are > considered good or bad licenses (my lawyer will then reject any he > doesn't like), I just like to know which licenses are used a lot. > > henrik > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lro...@rosenlaw.com> wrote: >> Karl Fogel wrote: >> >> As has been explained multiple times, Luis's current proposal is >> intentionally based on something that was determined a long time ago, and he >> is doing it this way in order to be able to take one small step now -- and >> not have it bottlenecked by the larger & more complex discussion that needs >> to happen to update that list. I think Mike has pointed this out too. >> >> >> >> LER recommends that this is what the OSI landing page ought to say: >> >> >> >> ************ >> >> >> >> An alphabetical listing of all Currently Approved open source licenses is >> shown here. <link> >> >> >> >> The Currently Approved list excludes those licenses that have been replaced >> with more recent versions (in which case the most recent version has been >> listed above), or that have been deprecated by their original authors. A >> list of Replaced and Deprecated licenses can be found here. <link> >> >> >> >> Several organizations maintain lists of licenses that they prefer to be used >> for contributions or that they recommend for their community participants. >> Among these Preferred lists are the following: >> >> >> >> · Free Software Foundation (FSF) <link> >> >> · OSI License Proliferation Committee Report <link> [to be updated >> someday?] >> >> · Apache Software Foundation <link> >> >> · Eclipse Foundations <link> >> >> · Google/Android <link> >> >> · Mozilla Foundation <link> >> >> · Linux Foundation <link> >> >> · Open Solaris <link> >> >> · Etc. >> >> >> >> Various organizations identify Popular open source licenses based on surveys >> and other criteria. These lists are available on their websites: >> >> >> >> · Black Duck Software <link> >> >> · Etc. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> License-discuss mailing list >> License-discuss@opensource.org >> http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss >> > > > > -- > henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss