I wrote up a small program and a web page about it to answer the question
for me: "Are more licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation, or
instead by the Open Source Initiative?" Here is a summary [0] of my
findings:
* Licenses approved by FSF alone: 51
* Licenses approved by OSI alone: 43
* Licenses approved by both: 16
Here's a fact, if you believe my results: There are more "Free Software"
licenses than "Open Source" licenses.
>From this, one can extrapolate all sorts of interesting flamebait. I'll
start; hopefully (since this is a discussion list) you all can help
further fan the flames.
"Open Source is less popular than Free Software."
"The Free Software community is more welcoming of outsiders to its
community than the Open Source community."
"The problem is not Open Source license proliferation, it is Free Software
license proliferation!"
Full results at http://www.asheesh.org/note/software/osi-vs-fsf.html .
That link includes source and data adequate to reproduce my findings.
-- Asheesh.
0. http://www.asheesh.org/note/software/osi-vs-fsf-summary.html
--
Backward conditioning:
Putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring.
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