pruning "dead" licenses

Thorsten Glaser tg at 66h.42h.de
Tue Dec 14 17:08:30 UTC 2004


Eric S. Raymond dixit:

>John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth.com>:
>> > To the extent that we can promote freedom and get better outcomes by
>> > pruning licenses, I'd sacrifice "diversity" without a qualm.

I wouldn't: the certification mark does not mention OSI only gives
it out for a limited time, but guarantees that OSI lists the approved
licences on their website.

>Yet to be determined. I've been thinking in terms of de-emphasizing,
>mostly by creating a category of "preferred" or "best-practice" licenses
>and pushing those.

You already did this:
http://catb.org/%7Eesr/Licensing%2DHOWTO.html

Only that you might want to replace the MPL soon...

//mirabile




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