On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:47 AM Lawrence Rosen <lro...@rosenlaw.com> wrote: > I realize most of you don't give a damn about the OSL license, but anyway > that is what it says. Now, as I told Bruce Perens privately, I've resigned > myself to being ignored on this OSI list. Bruce replied: > > Yes, but you project your personal hurt about this pretty much every time > discussion comes around to a GNU license. The world didn't beat a path to > your door. It doesn't always, and it doesn't have to be fair. Reminding us > how bitter you are about it once a month is a losing fight.
FWIW, I only consider about five different licenses for new projects. Not because they're necessarily better than OSL (I never investigated that deeply) but because I am against license proliferation, and the existing five are good enough. If I want my open source project to have a chance, I don't want to disadvantage it with an obscure or less popular license. (This isn't a dig at OSL, it's just a statement about GPL being vastly more common.) It's the same reason my projects are hosted on GitHub: It's kind of hilarious that a lot of major open source stuff is being done on a proprietary platform-- I'd like to avoid that, but for popularity reasons, I've stayed for now. Cheers, James _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
