On 12/20/2011 03:45 AM, Bruce Perens wrote: > Can you tell me how many licenses are in Fedora? If it's 300, it's > something of a self-created problem, but then you'd be in lots of company.
It is 300+. And yes, it is a bit of a self-created problem, although, I'd be willing to bet that if we spent the time to graph the usage of the licenses, we'd have a lot of items easily shown as "outliers". The very nature of the success of Fedora reflected in its growth will reveal the odd and the unusual licenses in the undergrowth, especially as we start to package and include items which were previously obscure/niche (think Bioinformatics, academia, pharma, quant, etc, etc). I also don't think it is a real problem that the OSI list doesn't have everything that Fedora has. IMHO, the OSI has the burden of being a public face in the battle to minimize license proliferation. Fedora just reflects the reality on the battlefield. ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss