Ah, OK- this makes sense. I tend to just hit Google first to answer this question, but it is obviously a valid and sensible use case. Thanks for clarifying for me.
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Tzeng, Nigel H. <[email protected]> wrote: > Same. I used it this way today when I was curious if the Code Project > Open License was OSI approved. It's not but is on the osrc top 20 list - I > dunno if that is a bug or a feature...I assume there is some weird history > given that the OSI is "below the fold" on their resource page and grouped > with SPDX (who?). > > Arguably if you are going to Ctrl-F the page the other list works better > since the retired licenses exist on that page and not the alphabetical > one. I tend to scan the page visually since the list isn't all that long. > > On 11/12/12 4:19 PM, "Henrik Ingo" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Heard loud and clear re usefulness of the alphabetical list; it will >>> not go away. >>> >>> I'm surprised by that, so (in a different thread) I'd welcome more >>> detail on what people use it for. >> >>User story: >> >>Henrik needs to look up (or link to) the Acme Corporation Public >>License. He goes to opensource.org, and clicks on "Open Source >>Licenses". Since he knows the name of the license he wants to look up, >>he clicks on "Licenses by Name". He then presses Ctrl+F to search for >>the wanted license within the alphabetical list. >> >>This is pretty much the only way I personally ever look up a license. >> >>henrik >> >>-- >>[email protected] >>+358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo >>www.openlife.cc >> >>My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 >>_______________________________________________ >>License-discuss mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
