Optimal license for Java projects ...

[John Cowan]

David Johnson scripsit:

> What caused the previous preponderance of incompatible proprietary X 
> implementations? I would point the finger not at the license but at the 
> Open Group, who could never make up their mind if they wanted the code 
> to be free or not. It seems to me that they actually encouraged 
> proprietary forks. 

AFAIK that was the whole point: a common core shared among the members,
and then each to compete on the enhancements, the same as (proprietary)
Unix itself.  But it was too hard to nail down exactly what the terms
should be on the common core, and the XC ended up using a completely
toothless license: the peace of exhaustion.

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