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

[Simon Phipps]

Care to propose an improvement?


On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:37 PM, lrosen at rosenlaw.com <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>wrote:

> "Standard" is a loaded term. Licenses are not standards and OSI is not a
> standards organization.  Larry
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> Sent from my smartphone
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Luis Villa
> Date:04/27/2014 6:11 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: License Discuss
> 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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