[License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.1 (C-FSL v1.1)

[Brendan Hickey]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 16:50 Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:

If you'd like a concrete proposal, take the offending
licenses off the list, or place them in a new, deprecated
subcategory, and publish a rationale for doing so.  Or do
these things preliminarily, invite comment, and reassess.


I think this is a great idea, though I don't have any proposals for
licenses to put on the chopping block. At the most extreme I can imagine
deprecating BSD-3 and one of BSD-2 or MIT/Expat.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 17:01 Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:

> In the meantime, wouldn't the no-more-licenses faction
> prefer a more efficient path to rejection?
>

As someone firmly in the non-proliferationist camp, I'm not sure our
problem is efficiency. There just isn't a flood of well-formed,
non-duplicative licenses. For every license debated on the merits (ex. UPL)
there might be ten that can be rejected out of hand.

What are the downsides to being inefficient? We might chase off folks
submitting bad licenses in earnest. This isn't a great experience. Perhaps
this avoidable with a preflight checklist, or a more structured tracking
system as others have suggested.

Brendan

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