On Tue, 30 October 2001, Steve Lhomme wrote: > http://www.networkcomputing.com/1222/1222ws1.html The part that looked promising was actually the tiny table in gif form, that is barely noticable on page two. http://img.cmpnet.com/nc/1222/graphics/1222ws1.gif The idea of being able to compare license to license in table form has its appeal. (whether that particular table achieves that or not, eh, maybe not) the problem would be to come up with the table categories such that they align with copyright law and real-world effects. copy, modify, distribute is all copyright law cares about. but there's distinctions within those categories. i.e. LGPL vs GPL: one lets you distribute outside code linked with the original code, and the other does not. I don't know what all the distinctions are between all the licenses to know if they can be easily broken down into a small, finite set of categories, put in table form with yes/no answers, and have such a table fully describe the effects of the license. It would be nice. The idea would be for a non-lawyer programmer to be able to look at the table and select the license that does what they want. it would be a lot easier to compare apples to apples if all the columns lined up nicely. Greg -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3