Danese Cooper scripsit: > 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).
If you are willing to write it, I'd like to read a post from you on this subject. I think it would contain valuable information. > 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). I think I can safely say I don't do that in my license wizard <http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/floss>, since I have no such business reasons. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Economists were put on this planet to make astrologers look good. --Leo McGarry _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss