Ian Lance Taylor scripsit: > > I don't understand why there are so many licenses, if the open-source > > specification is so rigid. > > I don't really understand it either. I mean, I know how we got here > step by step, but looking at the situation now it doesn't make much > sense.
We have so many licenses because of the Not Invented Here principle: lawyers don't want to adopt the work of other lawyers as is, because how could they justify their fees then? We really need only about two licenses: a reciprocal one and a non-reciprocal one. Perhaps we also need one that is reciprocal as to the code itself, but not as to larger works in which the code is embedded. -- There are three kinds of people in the world: John Cowan those who can count, http://www.reutershealth.com and those who can't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
