Communication skills

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Nov 16 08:56:59 UTC 2007


Quoting Tzeng, Nigel H. (Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu):

> Out of curiosity, why doesn't the OSI have a basic permissive license
> that has all the "best" features of various BSD and MIT variants?
> Using an "OSI <n> Clause" permissive license seems neutral and
> reasonable.

I don't speak for OSI, but I imagine there are quite a number of
satisfactory permissive licences already, including a couple of
extremely successful, widely used ones, and it's unclear what OSI would
add in crowding the bestiary further.




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