On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller <ro...@roblimo.com>wrote:
> On 12/19/2011 11:57 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: > >> Fedora is tracking 300+ different FOSS licenses. >> > > I got my list here: > http://www.opensource.org/**licenses/alphabetical<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical> > > Rob, Happy to have a chat if you want a longer conversation...I'm now a "Board Member Emeritus" of OSI (meaning I'm retired from the Board) and also an official Board Observer...but my comments would be on my own behalf and not necessarily the opinion of the OSI As you may know, in my previous work life I personally contributed to "License Proliferation" ... Sun submitted four licenses to OSI, of which three (SISSL, SPL and CDDL) were approved. I can tell you that I personally tried to convince the product teams in each of those cases to use one of the "Big Four" reusable licenses. Happy to comment on why they didn't. Along the way, though, they learned their lesson (and you'll notice that Sun's final engagement with Open Source used GPLv2). I can also tell you that during my 10-year tenure on the OSI Board we consistently tried to convince license authors that they didn't need to create new licenses, with some success. We've also noticed that most people who believe they can select the "definitive" collection of worthy licenses do so with bias that excludes license categories they hope to downplay for business reasons (witness GoogleCode's exclusion of licenses that require attribution or those that trigger on use of code rather than distribution). Anyway, let me know if you'd like a conversation. Happy Holidays, Danese > > > -- > Robin 'Roblimo' Miller > Bradenton Florida USA > > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss > >
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