pruning "dead" licenses

[Adriano Galano]

Hello Martin, Robin and *:


> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Fink, Martin R [mailto:martin.fink at hp.com] 
> Enviado el: lunes, 13 de diciembre de 2004 16:13
> Para: Robin "Roblimo" Miller
> CC: license-discuss at opensource.org
> Asunto: RE: pruning "dead" licenses
> 
> I think we do need to find a way to reduce the number of licenses.
> 

Agree with you. 
But I think that one more *strict* mechanism have to come from the license's
approval commitee. Maybe is necesary to have more strict "workflow" for
license submission, when some previous "advisory level" that recomends what
license/licenses to choose for the specific project/interest. This advisory
level will recomend to submit the new license to public discussion or not.

> However, I'm not sure that categorizations such as "active" 
> and "inactive", or "often/sometimes/rarely" is where I'd go 
> (I could be wrong).  I'm still thinking through this because 
> I'd like to submit a more formal proposal, but my brain is 
> more around a few different areas, such as categorizing:
> 
> "Vanity licenses"
> "Single project use licenses"
> "Copyleft and non-copyleft licenses"
> "Corporate and community licenses"
> 

Hummm...with a license "taxonomy" maybe it become more complex the problem.
A single look to http://freshmeat.net/stats/#license tell us the "vitality"
of some licenses.


> [...]
> I welcome ideas, and as I develop this further, I'll see if I 
> can propose something a bit more formally.
> 

I believe that the problem is not the license itself...is the approval
procedure. ;-)

> Martin
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Best regards,
-Adriano

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