[License-discuss] BSD, MIT [was Re: Draft of new OSI licenses landing page; please review.]

[John Cowan]

Tom Callaway scripsit:

> Perhaps we should simply alphabetize these licenses? I'm not sure we'll
> ever reach consensus on ordering by "importance" or "value" or "usefulness".

Consensus is not expected (see Karl's original post).  All that matters,
finally, is an argument good enough to convince 7 out of 12 OSI board
members; in practice, probably fewer.

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