license categories, was: I'm not supposed to use the ECL v2?

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi Chris,

On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Chris Travers wrote:

> 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.

You are correct, but I was working off the September 2006  
categorization:

https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki/help/recommend

I've added a note to that effect, since I'm not ready to go beyond  
that on my own.

> 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.

Feel free to suggest better language!

-- Ernie P.