How about license-review at opensource.org?

Justin Wells jread at fever.semiotek.com
Tue Sep 21 08:37:00 UTC 1999


Perhaps what is needed is a mechanism by which reviewees can browse the 
content they are interested in, without having their mailbox fill up.

There are several ways to do this:

   -- provide a digest version of the list in addition to the regular list

   -- provide a threaded browseable web archive 

The second choice might be the best. A reviewee could post their license and
then check the website to see what had been posted to THEIR thread. They 
would not have to read other threads.

A browseable web archive would also provide the general public with 
access to the historical discussion on each of the reviewed licenses.

Justin


On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 06:59:32AM -0000, bruce at perens.com wrote:
> From: Justin Wells <jread at fever.semiotek.com>
> > I question the viability of an opensource license discussion list on 
> > which opensource philosophy is off topic.
> 
> There's really no question regarding viability - it's a special-purpose list
> for a rather important task. Reviewers stay on it. Reviewees sign on and off
> as necessary.
> 
> We have a number of people who we _really_ want to put Open Source licenses
> on their products. Some of them have tuned in here, gotten a mailbox full of
> ESR vs. RMS squabbles, and have considered giving up on their Open Source
> license. That can't be allowed to happen again.
> 
> 	Thanks
> 
> 	Bruce



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