Simon Phipps wrote: > Mind you, OSI has described itself as a standards body for open source > licenses
> for a long time, see http://opensource.org/about (I believe that text used to > be > on the home page). Perhaps, but that term has thus been misused. There is absolutely nothing about OSI – its governance policies, its procedures, its membership rules, its board selections, or its activities – that would in any sense qualify OSI as a standards organization. I'm not quarreling with OSI's attempt to get everyone to use approved licenses, but I have long challenged your attempts to steer people toward some subset of those licenses. Especially if you hint that they are in any way, shape or form "standard" licenses. That's overreach for which you are not legally qualified. /Larry Lawrence Rosen Rosenlaw & Einschlag ( <http://www.rosenlaw.com/> www.rosenlaw.com) 3001 King Ranch Road, Ukiah, CA 95482 Cell: 707-478-8932 Fax: 707-485-1243 From: Simon Phipps [mailto:si...@webmink.com] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 8:44 PM To: license-discuss@opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"? I don't think that's the point of the entry Luis is constructing. He's using the word "standardized" as a term of speech rather than as a technical term. Mind you, OSI has described itself as a standards body for open source licenses for a long time, see http://opensource.org/about (I believe that text used to be on the home page). S. On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lro...@rosenlaw.com <mailto:lro...@rosenlaw.com> > wrote: How about "OSI Approved" license? That's what you do. Simon Phipps <webm...@opensource.org <mailto:webm...@opensource.org> > wrote: Care to propose an improvement? On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:37 PM, lro...@rosenlaw.com <mailto:lro...@rosenlaw.com> <lro...@rosenlaw.com <mailto:lro...@rosenlaw.com> > wrote: "Standard" is a loaded term. Licenses are not standards and OSI is not a standards organization. Larry -------- Original message -------- From: Luis Villa Date:04/27/2014 6:11 PM (GMT-08:00) To: License Discuss Subject: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"? Hi, all- A few of us were talking and realized the FAQ/website have nothing to explain why *using standard licenses* is a good idea. This being a sort of basic point, I started remedying the problem :) Draft FAQ entry addressing the question is here: http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/Why+standardized+licensing%3F There is also an incomplete potential more-than-FAQ answer that could be put somewhere on opensource.org <http://opensource.org> . The more I think about it, the more I think the FAQ may be sufficient, but I'd be curious what others here think and whether something longer is worthwhile. Feedback is probably better on-wiki but the list is fine too. :) Luis
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