BSD-like licenses and the OSI approval process

[Chris DiBona]

Okay, so Zac, nothing personal, but don't you htink osi's role and
actions are confusing enough without adding yet another license
qualifier?

Chris

On Oct 12, 2007 2:11 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Zac Bowling (zac at zacbowling.com):
>
> > How about defining a difference between "OSI Approved" and "OSI Compatible"
>
> Candidate answer:   Because part of the point of having a formal
> definition in the first place is to encourage convergence onto a limited
> number of relatively well known licences, so that the vast majority of
> the population who don't enjoy minutely reading such things don't have
> to worry about unpredictable effects from bizarre variations.
>
>



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