Changing subject line, since I think this discussion is somewhat distinct
from the main subject of the other email (how to do much better going
forward). And it is going to get into a silly level of detail ;)
(That said, the quibbling over even these fairly small changes between
people who agree
Luis
Thanks for keeping this discussion alive. My comments:
As for popular licenses, I generally agree with your suggestions. I
would also argue that coming up with a list of de-facto most popular
licenses shouldn't be as bitterly controversial as you're prepared
for, and maybe the history of
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:07:53PM +, Luis Villa wrote:
> With all that in mind, I think that OSI needs a (mostly) data-driven
> "popular" shortlist, based on a scan of public code + application of
> (mostly?) objective rules to the outcome of that scan.
>
> To maintain OSI's reputation as
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:07:53PM +, Luis Villa wrote:
> The proliferation report attempted to address this problem by categorizing
> existing licenses. These categories were, intentionally or not, seen as the
> "popular or strong communities list" and "everything else". Without a
> process
Got it, thank you for the clarification.
Thanks,
Cem Karan
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I may not have been clear - under this proposal, the "special purpose
licenses" category would continue to exist, and could be used for licenses
like the ones you describe, Cem. Same with categories with more negative
connotation, like "redundant", non-reusable, superseded, etc.
It's not entirely
I agree with the idea of this, but there will always be niche licenses that are
needed and won't make it into the popular list. E.g., licenses that can be
used on public domain software (like US Government works, which generally don't
have copyright). These will need to be handled carefully,
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Hey, all-
I promised some board members a summary of my investigation in '12-'13 into
updating, supplementing, or replacing the "popular licenses" list. Here
goes.
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