I think it's a real pity, because it slows down a lot of effort in the
Open-Source direction/community. The OSI approval has become a guarantee for
developpers and companies who want to use open-source softwares. And so
they're currently stuck with the ones already approved. Not letting a better
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And so they're currently stuck with the ones already approved. Not
letting a better chance to newer (and so probably better, because of
years of experience of the problems that already happened).
I'm curious as to what specific features you see as improvements,
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First, I don't know what are the pending-to-be-certified licenses.
Ah, so yours was purely a _theoretical_ concern.
Well, please do talk to us about the evolutionary merit of some new
licence when you can actually point to one displaying such a trait.
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| First, I don't know what are the pending-to-be-certified licenses.
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| Ah, so yours was purely a _theoretical_ concern.
Completely. Since they are pending, they are not mentioned on the
opensource.org website.
| Well, please do talk to us about the
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Completely. Since they are pending, they are not mentioned on the
opensource.org website.
Therefore: Consider yourself invited to read their postings to the list
archives and report back.
Well, I thought the OSI was there to approve or not the new licenses
| Completely. Since they are pending, they are not mentioned on the
| opensource.org website.
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| Therefore: Consider yourself invited to read their postings to the list
| archives and report back.
I will. But if you followed the thread I replied to a message that
complained about a license
Just a different $.02, but relevant I think.
For Steve, I think that OSI recently started some other initiatives to
try to speed up the license review process (isn't there at least one
voluntary advisory committee reviewing one license?).
For everyone:
Maybe the OSI could publish a few
Ok.. I find it interesting to note that despite significant back and
forth and contributions from several different individuals, so far
nobody in this thread has even attempted to address either of my actual
questions. I think I'm beginning to see why there's a backlog.
Steve Lhomme wrote:
Alex Stewart wrote:
If the point is to provide a
few good, clear-cut licenses
for people to choose from, that's one
thing, and suggests the OSI should be very picky.
If the goal is to encourage open-source licensing
terms amongst the software community,
that's very different, and
On Saturday 22 September 2001 02:17 pm, Greg London wrote:
The OSD has 11(?) requirements.
how hard would it be to come up with a minimal license
that defines these requirements. THen if you want to
create your own license, you inherit the minimal license
and add to it.
It's not as easy as
Greg London wrote:
IANAL, but simply from a development point of view,
OSI does not appear to be taking advantage of some
of open-source's best feature: patches and evolution
There is a BIG difference between software and licenses. One of the
most pertinent differences in this context is
David Johnson wrote:
A far better solution would be to encourage template licenses, and work
towards converting existing licenses into templates. The BSD license is a
good example of a simple one.
I tend to agree with this. The Apache license is another example (I
note it primarily
Or maybe I won't bother. I like the concept of the OSI and what they're
ostensibly doing, and I'd even like to help, but when it comes right
down to it, it's not like OSI certification is actually _useful_ for
anything..
It's really useful. Maybe not in your case, but let me explain.
As a
On Saturday 22 September 2001 06:44 pm, Alex Stewart wrote:
Here are OSI certified templates. If you create a license by sticking
your name/information/etc into the appropriate fields of this license
without modifying anything else, it will be automatically certified
within (whatever the
On Friday 21 September 2001 03:54 pm, Steve Mallett wrote:
As more newbies come looking for this thing 'open-source' they keep hearing
about they're going to want to know one thing only. Is it open-source or
not? Yes or no?
I second that opinion. As a developer, I take great pains in
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