An explanation of the difficulty of solving licenseproliferation in one sentence
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Mar 9 20:22:36 UTC 2005
Quoting Ian Lance Taylor (ian at airs.com):
> ...denial of OSI certification is the biggest stick that OSI has....
I would say it's widespread community shunning of, and persistent bad
press for, projects that deceptively profess to be open source
without being substantively OSD-compliant and issued in an open
source manner (e.g., w.r.t. patent encumbrances). OSI's institutional
powers are small, but that rather misses the point of how its
influence works.
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