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

[Luis Villa]

Heard loud and clear re usefulness of the alphabetical list; it will
not go away.

I'm surprised by that, so (in a different thread) I'd welcome more
detail on what people use it for.

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Gwyn Murray <gwyn at mataulegal.com> wrote:
> 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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