[License-discuss] Greetings, Earthlings! Need quotes for article

Karl Fogel kfogel at red-bean.com
Tue Dec 20 18:46:18 UTC 2011


Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> writes:
>That sums it up pretty well. The ~70-license OSI list will give anyone
>new to open source a rather distorted view of FOSS licensing. For
>example, and the part that bothers me the most, there is an
>overrepresentation of mostly-obsolete licenses that I would describe
>as monuments to the excesses of the open source bubble years, a few of
>which even fail to meet any reasonable contemporary definition of
>"open source". 

We're working on fixing those presentation problems; see

  http://projects.opensource.org/redmine/issues/4



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