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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