[License-discuss] [License-review] Coherent Open Source - Getting underway next Friday

Pamela Chestek pamela at chesteklegal.com
Thu Sep 12 15:32:02 UTC 2019


On 9/12/2019 10:23 AM, Gil Yehuda wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 8:29 PM Bruce Perens via License-review
> <license-review at lists.opensource.org
> <mailto:license-review at lists.opensource.org>> wrote:
>
>     Friday next week at Open Core Summit, I will announce COHERENT
>     OPEN SOURCE. Let's scrap the Tower of Babel of 100+ Open Source
>     licenses, for a minimal set, FSF/OSI approved, cross-compatible,
>     that achieves most purposes of Open Source/Free Software.
>      --
>     Bruce Perens - Partner, OSS.Capital <http://OSS.Capital>.
>
To what end? Do you expect everyone to relicense existing software? Why
isn't a "Coherent Open Source" license scheme just adding one or more
licenses to the mix?

Pam

Pamela S. Chestek
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