Just chiming in... I am also 1000% behind this. Looks like a great move forward.
Karl Fogel <[email protected]> writes: > I completely support this, and am very happy to have it supersede my > original proposed new page -- this way is better, both in the short term > and the long term. Thanks for the well-explained proposal, Luis. > > I especially like the second item under Miscellany, by the way :-). > That will make maintenance of the list much easier, and I think it is > something Infrastructure should look at after the Drupal upgrade. > > Terse only because in an airport waiting lounge, > -Karl > > Luis Villa <[email protected]> writes: >>Following up on Karl's email of a few months ago, this is a >>deliberately low-key proposal from me and other board members to >>simplify and improve how the OSI-approved licenses are presented on >>the OSI website. As it currently stands, we don't have a page we can >>point a newcomer to to learn about what an open source license is, or >>what the most common licenses are. We'd like to solve that, at least >>in part, by making the current http://opensource.org/licenses/ more >>useful by highlighting the most common licenses and by providing a bit >>more context about what it means to be an open source license. >> >>Despite coming from me and other board members, the text and layout >>below are just a proposal, and are of course open to suggestions, >>improvements, and discussion. >> >>What This Is Not >>============ >> >>Karl's original proposal included suggestions of how to change and >>update which licenses belong in which categories. This email and >>proposed web site changes are definitely not addressing that issue. I >>feel (and I'm pretty sure others on the board feel) that those >>questions should be addressed, but because those are complex issues >>that will inevitably involve months of careful discussion and >>planning, and because we all agree that the current website layout is >>unsatisfactory, we'd like to not block this quicker, smaller >>discussion. >> >>The Proposal >>========= >> >>1. Reorganize the left-side navigation. What is currently "Open Source >>Licenses," with sub-points "Licenses by Category", "Licenses by Name", >>"License Review Process," and "License Proliferation," would simply >>become "Open Source Licensing" (content of that page discussed below). >>"License Review Process" and "License Proliferation" would be moved to >>bullets under "The Open Source Definition," because those pages are >>primarily about OSI's process and standards rather than about specific >>licenses or about open source licenses more generally. >> >>By slightly hiding the "by category" and "by names" pages, we'd be >>funneling people (particularly newcomers) to a slightly more >>informative page (and one that can be improved over time), while not >>losing the master lists altogether for the times when those are >>needed. >> >>2. The "Open Source Licensing" page (replacing >>http://opensource.org/licenses/) would be fleshed out to say >>(hopefully all changes self-explanatory): >> >> Open Source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source >>Definition and have been approved through the Open Source Initiative's >>license review process. >> >> The following Open Source licenses are popular, widely used, or >>have strong communities: >> >> Apache License, 2.0 (Apache-2.0) >> BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license (BSD-3-Clause) >> BSD 3-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" license (BSD-2-Clause) >> GNU General Public License (GPL) >> GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL) >> MIT license (MIT) >> Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0) >> Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL-1.0) >> Eclipse Public License (EPL-1.0) >> >> A complete list of all Open Source Initiative-approved licenses, >>including those above, is available: >> >> sorted by name (alphabetical) >> sorted by category >> >> For more information about Open Source licenses and in particular >>about the Open Source Initiative's license review process, see: >> >> The Open Source Definition (annotated version) >> The OSI License Review Process >> Information on License Proliferation and the 2006 License >>Proliferation Report >> >>Miscellany >>======== >> >>* We'll of course clean up any dangling links caused by changed URLs >>and set up proper redirects before changing any URLs. (Not entirely >>clear it makes sense to change /licenses/ to /licensing/, which would >>be the primary URL change based on the previous suggestions). >> >>* In the longer term, once Drupal is upgraded, it will likely make >>sense to generate http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical and >>http://opensource.org/licenses/category programatically, rather than >>through the current manual listing, which is of course error-prone. >>(Some people have suggested doing away with the alphabetical list >>altogether, which I personally would be fine with.) That may cause >>some more tweaks in URLs and layouts, but we'll cross that bridge when >>we come to it. >>_______________________________________________ >>License-discuss mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
