On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45:34AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > On 12/19/2011 09:54 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: > >nor are we the author of any of the licenses we track(1)), so > >we're not the appropriate entity to submit what we find to the OSI > >for approval. > Can you tell me how many licenses are in Fedora? If it's 300, it's > something of a self-created problem, but then you'd be in lots of > company.
The numerosity itself is not a problem, in my opinion, since most of the previously-unfamiliar licenses one encounters are benign variants on well-known types. The challenge is in dealing with the cases that are, in some explicit sense, right on the FOSS/non-FOSS edge (generally by the license drafter's design), or else with poorly drafted (though probably well-intended) legacy licenses (hello TeXLive!). - RF _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
