Sorry, it is my day to cause unnecessary confusion. "LER" is my initials. It is me. /Larry
-----Original Message----- From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfo...@red-bean.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 12:29 PM To: lro...@rosenlaw.com Cc: license-discuss@opensource.org; bo...@opensource.org Subject: Re: [Board] Alternative Proposal: The OSI licensing pages "Lawrence Rosen" <lro...@rosenlaw.com> writes: >LER recommends that this is what the OSI landing page ought to say: I got confused by the "LER", or maybe by the quoting conventions in the email (since it seems to have been done via colorization rather than by nested ">"s ?). Anyway, was it you who wrote the above line, and if so, does "LER" refer to you, or if not, then to whom? Btw, in case the above sounds sarcastic: it's not. Genuine confusion, genuine attempt to resolve it, nothing more. Thanks, -K >************ > > > >An alphabetical listing of all Currently Approved open source licenses >is shown here. <link> > > > >The Currently Approved list excludes those licenses that have been >replaced with more recent versions (in which case the most recent >version has been listed above), or that have been deprecated by their >original authors. A list of Replaced and Deprecated licenses can be >found here. <link> > > > >Several organizations maintain lists of licenses that they prefer to be >used for contributions or that they recommend for their community >participants. Among these Preferred lists are the following: > > > >· Free Software Foundation (FSF) <link> > >· OSI License Proliferation Committee Report <link> [to be >updated someday?] > >· Apache Software Foundation <link> > >· Eclipse Foundations <link> > >· Google/Android <link> > >· Mozilla Foundation <link> > >· Linux Foundation <link> > >· Open Solaris <link> > >· Etc. > > > >Various organizations identify Popular open source licenses based on >surveys and other criteria. These lists are available on their >websites: > > > >· Black Duck Software <link> > >· Etc. > >_______________________________________________ >Board mailing list >bo...@opensource.org >http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/board _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
