<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2007 6:54 PM, Ernest Prabhakar <<a href="mailto:ernest.prabhakar@gmail.com">ernest.prabhakar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Chris,<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Chris Travers wrote:<br><br>> I notice that any reasonable reading of that page would seem to<br>> suggest that the use of the GPL v3 (being incompatible with the GPL
<br>> v2 and not as widely used) is strongly discouraged by the OSI. I<br>> trust this was not the intent.<br><br></div>You are correct, but I was working off the September 2006<br>categorization:<br><div class="Ih2E3d">
<br><a href="https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki/help/recommend" target="_blank">https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki/help/recommend</a><br><br></div>I've added a note to that effect, since I'm not ready to go beyond<br>that on my own.
</blockquote><div><br>I think we *should* probably start a thread about how projects typically select licenses, and what sort of (non-legal) advice they would give to someone asking what license to choose.<br></div><div>
<br>Of course. Here is how I would word it given the current objective:<br><br>There are, of course, many factors which can go into choosing a license, However many copyleft licenses are incompatible with the copyleft licenses in this list. One would do well to note that a great deal of software under licenses such as the GPL v2 might not be useful to your project if you use more obscure licenses, hence you may lose out on valuable opportunities if you choose a lesser-known license.
<br></div></div><br><br>Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br>