<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2007 6:07 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;">
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>I've started a page on the Trac Wiki for that purpose:<br><br><a href="https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki/help/recommend" target="_blank">https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki/help/recommend</a><br><br>
Hopefully we'll soon have some editors who can work on it :-)</blockquote><div><br>I notice that any reasonable reading of that page would seem to suggest that the use of the GPL v3 (being incompatible with the GPL v2 and not as widely used) is strongly discouraged by the OSI. I trust this was not the intent.
<br><br>My own thinking here is that we may want to think a bit harder about the question of whether we want to recommend licenses on the basis of popularity. It might be better to simply suggest that the cost in terms of code reuse from choosing incompatible licenses might be a good thing worth considering.
<br> <br>Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br></div></div><br>