Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing page [revisited]

2012-11-12 Thread John Cowan
Tzeng, Nigel H. scripsit: Frankly, if you aren't going to tackle the categorization issue then I'd just update the links to insure they are accurate and leave it alone because you're going to have contention over what belongs in that list of popular, widely used or have strong communities on

Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing page [revisited]

2012-11-12 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Count my vote as NO for the same reason that Nigel gave. Count me also as frustrated that OSI continues to silence the arguments against your license categorizations! /Larry Lawrence Rosen Rosenlaw Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com) 3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482

Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing page [revisited]

2012-11-12 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
Incorrect. The only part I'm specifically against is the section: The following OSI-approved licenses are popular, widely used, or have strong communities: [Insert the current list of popular/widely used/strong community licenses] The reason I am opposed to this specific part is

[License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing page [revisited]

2012-11-11 Thread Luis Villa
Hi, all- This is a deliberately small, unambitious proposal to simplify and improve how the OSI-approved licenses are presented on the OSI website. The goal of the proposal is to make http://opensource.org/licenses/ more useful for newcomers who are trying to learn about open source licensing

Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing page [revisited]

2012-11-11 Thread Luis Villa
Happy to take suggestions on the in essence part- trying to capture the basics in one sentence. On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Richard Fontana rfont...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 04:01:03PM -0800, Luis Villa wrote: 2. REVISE /LICENSES/ : The Open Source Licensing page

Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing page [revisited]

2012-11-11 Thread Gwyn Murray
Seconding Richard's comments regarding the usefulness of the alphabetical list here. G. On Nov 11, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 04:01:03PM -0800, Luis Villa wrote: 2. REVISE /LICENSES/ : The Open Source Licensing page (replacing the current