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

[Gwyn Murray]

Seconding Richard's comments regarding the usefulness of the alphabetical list here.

G.
On Nov 11, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 04:01:03PM -0800, Luis Villa wrote:
>> 2. REVISE /LICENSES/ : The "Open Source Licensing" page (replacing the
>> current http://opensource.org/licenses/)  would say (hopefully all
>> changes self-explanatory):
>> 
>> "
>> Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source
>> Definition[link] - in essence, they allow software to be used,
>> modified, and redistributed without restriction. 
> 
> I don't agree with the "in essence" part. 
> 
>> * In the longer term, once Drupal is upgraded, it will likely make
>> sense to generate http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical and
>> http://opensource.org/licenses/category programatically, rather than
>> through the current manual listing, which is of course error-prone.
>> (Some people have suggested doing away with the alphabetical list
>> altogether, which I personally would be fine with.) 
> 
> I've actually found the alphabetical list useful at times, FWIW.
> 
> - Richard
> 
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