YAPL is bad (was: Re: Backlog assistance?)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:56:55PM +0100, phil hunt (philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> On Saturday 22 September 2001 11:39 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >
> > Yet Another Public License (YAPL) is a bad trend.
> >
> > Ceterus paribus, more licenses are bad.  As the number of licenses
> > increases, the disruption caused by an additional license
> > increases.
> >
> > This is because interaction effects of licenses must be considered
> > on a combinatorial basis.  That is, effects grow in a factorial
> > manner.  The terms of each license must be understood
> > independently.  The interactions of each license pair, *and each
> > combination of licences*, must be considered.
> 
> What if, as part of the process of approving a new licence, the
> proposer of the license had to write a rationale of why a new license 
> is necessary, and why no existing OSI-certified licence exists
> that does the job.
> 
> Is this a good idea?

I think so.

Peace.

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