license wizard

[lmajerus at speakeasy.net]

Nope. I think that this is a DIFFERENT licensing wizard. I'll be interested in seeign it.

Laura

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall [mailto:joehall at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 01:14 AM
> To: 'Laura Majerus'
> Cc: license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: license wizard
> 
> On 10/26/05, Laura Majerus wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Dear concerned parties,
> > >
> > > As a user and developer of open source software, I find myself writing
> > > license summaries to keep track of which licenses are compatible with
> > > others in which circumstances. As I see it, part (or the crux) of the
> > > license proliferation problem is confusion and compatibility between
> > > licenses.
> >
> > Right now, volunteers are working on a license wizard that will help with this, at least a bit. Volunteers are from San Francisco State (programming) and USC law school (content of wizard).
> >
> > The wizard will let people search for licenses based on attributes of the licenses.
> 
> And this should launch relatively soon (the Samuelson Clinic here at
> Berkeley contributed as did I)... It's quite a piece of work. -Joe
> 
> --
> Joseph Lorenzo Hall
> PhD Student
> UC Berkeley, School of Information (SIMS)
> <http://josephhall.org/>
>