On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:19:17PM +0200, Henrik Ingo 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 generally why I've found the alphabetical list useful too. It's good for looking up the relatively obscure OSI-certified licenses which happen to have some official name; such licenses are often more difficult to find elsewhere. - Richard > > 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
