On Wednesday 08 September 2010 11:46:50 Praveen A wrote:

> 2010/9/8 jtd <[email protected]>:
> > The OSI has repeatedly shot itself in the foot with approvals for
> > all sorts of jailed licences. eg. the Sun Solaris licence.
>
> I don't think OSI approved Sun Solaris license. What it approved is
> CDDL, which is also approved by FSF. There is only one license
> which is approved by OSI but which is considered non-free by FSF.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_Public_License
>
> > However FOSSCOM should not in principle have a problem with any
> > licence which is GPL compatible.
>
> Why restrict it to only GPL compatible licenses? We should be ok
> with any licenses that OSI, FSF and Debian considers Free Software.
>
> > Having said that, one may do well to note that BSDlike licences
> > tend to be grossly misused by the usual suspects, resulting in
> > enormous problems for all FOSS users. Incase of egovernance (or
> > even other non trivial) software this should be strictly avoided.
>
> We can certainly say we prefer GPL.
>
> Praveen


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Rgds
JTD
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