[License-discuss] Open source license chooser choosealicense.com launched.

Pamela Chestek pamela at chesteklegal.com
Sun Aug 18 15:10:52 UTC 2013


On 8/17/2013 9:38 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Speaking just for myself, it is difficult for me to imagine any
> license chooser or license explanation site that I wouldn't think was
> more problematic than useful. Linking to a*wide*  variety of license
> choosers or summary sites with a very strong caveat emptor statement
> might be okay.
Because you are so intimately familiar with the licenses and know every 
feature and blemish, so you seek the perfect when maybe we should only 
aspire to the better-than-nothing. Maybe not; I read your slides and 
take your point that "nothing" isn't really all that scary. But I'm 
having a little difficulty reconciling the concepts that a narrower 
choice of tested licenses is better (i.e., license proliferation is bad) 
but we're not going to help you understand how these licenses work so 
you can make a better-informed, albeit perhaps not perfect, choice.

Pam

Pamela S. Chestek, Esq.
Chestek Legal
PO Box 2492
Raleigh, NC 27602
919-800-8033
pamela at chesteklegal.com
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