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

[Ben Tilly]

Apparently so.  Because if you agree with the goals of the GPL, you
should probably be using GPL v3+ rather than GPL v2+.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Richard Fontana
<fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:31:06 -0700
> Ben Tilly <btilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Suggested solution, can we use the word "common" instead of
>> "standard"?  And our definition of common should be something
>> relatively objective, like the top X licenses in use on github, minus
>> licenses (like the GPL v2) whose authors are pushing to replace with a
>> different license.
>
> You'd exclude the most commonly-used FLOSS license from "common"?
>
>  - RF