Sorry for posting a month late on this thread [I hadn't poked into the folder for this list in some time], but I didn't see a consensus and wanted to add my $0.02.
Luis Villa wrote on 16 July: > In the long-term, I'd actually like OSI to promote a license chooser > of its own. But in the meantime I'm pretty OK with linking to a > variety of license choosers. Richard Fontana pointed out in his OSCON talk that license choosers generally make political statements about views of licenses. He used the GitHub chooser as an example, which subtly pushes people toward permissive licenses. I was told GitHub's chooser accepts patches, and I was planning at some point to try to patch out this bias myself and see if my patch was accepted -- but of course any patch I produce is going to have subtle copyleft biases -- which I think was Fontana's point. (Fontana, do I have that right?) Therefore, I think OSI should likely avoid license chooser lest OSI end up in the quagmire of taking a position in the copyleft/permissive debates. -- -- bkuhn _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss