[License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"?

[lrosen at rosenlaw.com]

"Standard" is a loaded term. Licenses are not standards and OSI is not a standards organization.  Larry


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From: Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> 
Date:04/27/2014  6:11 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: License Discuss <license-discuss at opensource.org> 
Subject: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why	standard licenses"? 

Hi, all-

A few of us were talking and realized the FAQ/website have nothing to explain why *using standard licenses* is a good idea. This being a sort of basic point, I started remedying the problem :) 

Draft FAQ entry addressing the question is here: http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/Why+standardized+licensing%3F

There is also an incomplete potential more-than-FAQ answer that could be put somewhere on opensource.org. The more I think about it, the more I think the FAQ may be sufficient, but I'd be curious what others here think and whether something longer is worthwhile.

Feedback is probably better on-wiki but the list is fine too. :)
Luis
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