[License-review] [Non-DoD Source] [License-discuss] The License Talking-About List

Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) cem.f.karan.civ at mail.mil
Wed Aug 24 13:05:24 UTC 2016


What about GitHub?  There have been suggestions on the Python-ideas list to do 
this for any new python ideas.  The idea is simple; each license becomes its 
own project.  Issues can then be tracked via the issue tracker, making it easy 
to segregate the issues into individual threads, and as issues are corrected 
or ended, the issue is closed and the git commit where the issue was dealt 
with can be noted in the issue itself.  Finally, as long as we're dealing with 
a pure-text version of the license, we get all the power of git; diffs, forks, 
merges, etc.,

Would this work for everyone?

Thanks,
Cem Karan

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> Cem Karan wrote:
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> > I'm aware of the other list, but my understanding was that it had to be 
> > submitted to this list for discussion first, and then submitted to
> license-review once there was some consensus; am I wrong about this?
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> Cem, please don't feel bad about your confusion. I've been around these 
> lists for years and I still get confused about their differences. You
> can't talk about license A without comparing it to license B, but those 
> discussions may involve different email lists, at OSI and at FSF and
> at CC. And for additional confusion, lots of FOSS organizations like OSI 
> move discussions from list to list merely to discuss everything a
> second time. It often permanently delays the decision (like the NASA and CC0 
> licenses have been delayed here). That was also often my
> email experience at Apache.
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> Someone ought to invent a better solution than email lists to analyze 
> licenses and reach decisions.
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> /Larry
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> U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL)
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