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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>indeed there is too much choice,
it seems. the good news is that it can<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>be reduced to 3 licenses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>That is an invalid conclusion. I encourage you to read the
arguments on this topic, here in the archives and in several other publications
you'll see if you search Google (and my website too!), before you rush to
judgment about such important issues as copyright and patent licenses. Put
simply, Bruce Perens has left out lots of important considerations when he
narrows the choices to 3 licenses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>That is not the first time that some people here have
tried to categorize the open source world into three or four neat buckets to
suit some preconception that we and the law have already evolved as far as we
need go. It's bullshit and it should be called out as such every time it is
repeated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>For those who prefer simple answers, help yourself to
Bruce's choices. For those of you who have enough time and interest to be thinkers
rather than accolytes, and whose software is important and valuable, please do
some more research.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>/Larry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Lawrence Rosen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a
technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Apache Software Foundation,
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Stanford University,
Instructor in Law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Author, Open Source
Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law (Prentice Hall 2004)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: dirk dierickx [mailto:dirk.dierickx@gmail.com] <br>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:06 PM<br>
To: Aaron Aichlmayr<br>
Cc: license-discuss@opensource.org<br>
Subject: Re: How do I choose a licence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Bruce Perens had a nice article about this, you can read
it at:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3803101/Bruce-Perens-How-Many-Open-Source-Licenses-Do-You-Need.htm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>indeed there is too much choice, it seems. the good news
is that it can<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>be reduced to 3 licenses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 00:22 -0600, Aaron Aichlmayr wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> With the plentitude of licences out there how do I
choose the one that <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> is right for me? I am making a new php application
and would like to <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> stick to an open source licence on the approved list
but don't know half <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> of what I'm looking at.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-- <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>dirk dierickx <dirk.dierickx@gmail.com><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
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