[License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing pages

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Mon Jun 4 17:02:25 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:
> Luis Villa writes:
>> The following Open Source licenses are popular, widely used, or
>> have strong communities:
>
> As long as that list remains, I will object. It is inaccurate, incomplete,
> misleading, subject to cronyism and personal bias by members of the OSI
> board of directors, and does not reflect the actual importance or uses of
> those licenses.

Putting aside the specific basis for your objections for now, why are
you objecting now and not in the past five years this list has been in
use? Is there a particular change in the context that you think the
new draft language introduces, or...?

Luis



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