On Thu, 6 May 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Others who have suggested that the list of approved licenses is > going to continue to grow are very likely right, but is that a > problem?
Sure it is. Software writers spend more time selecting among mostly identical licenses and software users spend more time investigating what a given software license really means. The only question is whether this problem can be solved without creating bigger problems. > If so, efforts to create license templates with a range of choices > which result in OSI Open Source-compatible terms, such as the > Creative Commons licenses, seem to be a good idea. A similar effort > could be made to coalesce BSD-like licenses, GPL-derived licenses, > and perhaps others (the MPL?). Is there any active cooperation between OSI leaders and CC leaders to build a common interface to "good" software licenses? Or are we going to see yet another fragmentation here? Alex. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
