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

Karl Fogel kfogel at red-bean.com
Mon Apr 9 04:09:13 UTC 2012


"Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)" <raju at linux-delhi.org> writes:
>It's also important to note that the interactions of the short-listed 
>licences with other Free/Open licences are fairly well-known by now.  
>It's much easier today to answer the question "Can I mix GPL3 and 
>Apache2 code?" than to answer, e.g. "Can I mix CPL and Multics code?".
>
>Ability to answer questions like this itself ought to be a strong motive 
>for the short-list.

Indeed, a very good point.

If I could think of some way to express that reasoning compactly enough,
I'd even try to say it in the page itself... But I couldn't figure out
how to fit it into the page without it being too distracting; oh well.



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