<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>It isn't the least bit difficult to diagnose when no lawyer was involved in drafting a license. At the start we had an excuse because no lawyer would help us. The only excuse those licenses have today is disinterest in fixing the problem.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Luis Villa <luis@tieguy.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:15 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Bruce Perens scripsit:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">So, what the Artistic License 1.0 made much more difficult for the<br />poor Open Source developer is exactly what I'd like to fix. And yet<br />the Artistic 1.0 is not the one I thought of first upon seeing this<br />discussion in progress. We have much worse.</blockquote><br />Please itemize.</blockquote><br />I don't think we do anyone any favors by having extensive public<br />discussions of the legal/drafting weaknesses of existing licenses, so<br />please don't.<br /><br />The point stands that some licenses are poorly dra
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and that in a<br />perfect world where we could easily identify and evaluate such<br />licenses, we would probably no longer publicize/endorse them.<br /><br />That said, as Richard pointed out, this is an extremely difficult<br />issue to evaluate. It is inherently subjective, and a matter requiring<br />expertise. Given that, I see no evidence that OSI (or anyone) could<br />perform it in a reasonable, objective, efficient manner, so I'm not<br />very interested in pursuing it.<br /><br />Luis<br /><hr /><br />License-discuss mailing list<br />License-discuss@opensource.org<br /><a href="http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss">http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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