Personally, the OSSAL is a step in the right direction, once it's finished I am thinking of adopting it myself. It reflects current day needs among small shop developers (eg. self employed programmers/consultants). Which I might add, is a segment of this community who's needs are seemingly never fully addressed, by the OSI or FSF.
> The OSI is a political organization yeah.. and IMHO this is the very reason that many who want to support the Open Source community, will not do so. It is slowly becoming a cheerleading section for the GPL. Will the supporters of the GPL ever shed the notion that the GPL is "the answer to everything". Guess what, if diversity in your politics is a good thing than why does it seem to be an uphill battle every time someone does something that may not conform to the 'copyleft' side of the debate? Why does the "non-GPL" view have to be seen as "dissent" ? Why does the opensource community/OSI have to have one view on any given topic? >``dedicated to managing and > promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community.'' Well..there are those within the "community" to which the GPL is a hindrance, plain and simple. Those of us who do not work for mega corporations or universities with seemingly unlimited resources from multiple revenue streams and legions of underpaid code slaves. Those of us who own small businesses have needs that are not being met by currently defined OSI approved licenses, and quite honestly open source in general is taking a beating because of it, but the remedy is to submit new licenses, the OSI has provided a process for doing this, however the trend on new license submissions is always "use an existing license" or "use the GPL" If a hobbyist, or user, or whomever wants to license under the GPL thats fine, I'm glad they contributed, however, it is narrow minded and arrogant to think that the same rights that protect a user would be an acceptable in all other circumstances. I hope the OSI approves this license in short order. Have a great day! Mike -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
