[License-discuss] Draft of new OSI licenses landing page; please review.

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Wed Apr 4 19:53:30 UTC 2012


Mike Milinkovich scripsit:

> So this is basically re-opening up the whole can of worms that the license
> proliferation committee struggled with some years back that led them to
> create the category "License that are popular and widely used or with strong
> communities". Notably missing from your list are the "weak copyleft"
> licenses that are backed by large communities such as Mozilla and Eclipse. 

If you are writing code for Mozilla or Eclipse, you already know what
license(s) to use, so this page doesn't help you any.

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