Hmm… Would OSI itself be such an organisation? Since my personal preference of BSDL, I would like to see people writing BSDL-like clauses for different purposes (like my proposed BSDL-like copyleft clause) and a developer can just cherry-pick license features they want by choosing individual clauses and construct a license for themselves. OSI would supervise the creation of such clauses and determine whether any combination of such clauses would create a non-open license or not.
Clauses can be created my taking features out of existing licenses, like a GPL-style copyleft clause, an Apache-like patent protection clause, or a CC-like version upgrade clause. Localisations should be also considered if this project is to be carried out, as not all US-centric license licenses would work around the world. > On Apr 1, 2015, at 02:11, Tzeng, Nigel H. <nigel.tz...@jhuapl.edu> wrote: > > On 3/31/15, 1:59 PM, "Maxthon Chan" <xcvi...@me.com> wrote: > > >> I have a gut feeling that this thread have somewhat common point as my >> ³simple English BSD equivalent² thread as there are just too many >> politics and complexities involved in those licenses and engineers, being >> not-so-professional in law, gets confused easily. >> >> I still remembered my days reading through 17 USC and Chinese copyright >> law just to grasp an idea on how copyright works, and before I filed my >> patents I bought a book on how patent laws work. I have to educate myself >> in those legal concepts just to protect my own work. > > If only there were some (mostly) apolitical organization that could hire > lawyers and create a universal set of attribution and share alike software > licenses that would work across legal systems (with variants if required > under the hood) with simple ways to mix and match features to achieve the > desire of the developer in a commonly understood way. > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss