[License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development

fred trotter fred.trotter at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 06:53:11 UTC 2013


 Several of the licenses on the current OSI list (including some
> licenses recommended by automated license recommendation tools touted
> around
> here) already are "Open Source But They Suck Anyway." OSI and FSF both have
> proven to be sometimes bad judges of license suckiness.


Would it be prudent to limit the licenses that would be supported under the
time delay model to a limited set... to discourage License Proliferation
the way the Google Stance did at one time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation#Google.27s_stance



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Fred Trotter
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