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

[Ben Tilly]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Ben Tilly (btilly at gmail.com):
[...]
>> If the license dissuades people that you would like to have using your
>> software, it is also defective.
>>
>> Licenses have multiple potential failure modes.  Not all of which
>> happen in a court room.  There is value in standardized licenses.
>> There is value in simple licenses.  Sometimes this value outweighs the
>> value of having said *exactly* what you want said.
>
> Indeed.
>
> Death and taxes hereby incorporated by reference.
>
> Suggestion:  What the world really needs is a book listing all ways
> to go wrong with licensing.  Might be your calling, Ben.

I think that high on the list should be, "Accepting advice from people
who are unqualified to give it."  Which disqualifies me pretty
soundly.

I'll go back to Perl, math and A/B testing.  I know those pretty well.