On Apr 5, 2012, at 11:35 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Luis Villa scripsit: > >> Without getting into other issues, I'd hope we can agree that BSD/MIT >> do not belong in a first-class list here in 2012. Apache fills the >> same purpose[1] (permissive license) while being better drafted and >> properly handling patents. > > All true, and I greatly favor Apache. But BSD/MIT are well-understood > and still extremely pervasive. Looking at Google Code, which was > founded fairly recently, Apache dominates; looking at Sourceforge and > Freshmeat, MIT and BSD dominate. > > So put Apache before MIT/BSD, but don't drop them altogether.
-0... but just because something had been around for a long time (BSD/MIT) is no reason to maintain it as a 1st class citizen... The idea of a 1st class list is to "prioritize" the better licenses for a class of licenses, and the ALv2 is "better" than BSD/MIT. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
