[License-discuss] What should fit in a FOSS license?

Russell Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Wed Mar 11 14:58:31 UTC 2020


On 3/11/20 10:01 AM, Pamela Chestek wrote:
> On 3/11/2020 9:56 AM, Russell Nelson wrote:
>> On 3/10/20 8:27 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> I still say we should use the Vaccine License as a case example of an
>>> unpassable license on our website.
>> Not listing unpassable examples is a long-standing policy decision. We
>> have plenty of examples of what passes muster. I've never seen why we
>> need to list licenses that don't comply. Why do you think we need to
>> provide that information?
> It is also available:
> https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Archived+Discussions+on+Not+Approved+Licenses/
An archived discussion is not making a bad example of a license 
submitted with good intentions.



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