Heard loud and clear re usefulness of the alphabetical list; it will not go away.
I'm surprised by that, so (in a different thread) I'd welcome more detail on what people use it for. On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Gwyn Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > Seconding Richard's comments regarding the usefulness of the alphabetical > list here. > > G. > On Nov 11, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 04:01:03PM -0800, Luis Villa wrote: >>> 2. REVISE /LICENSES/ : The "Open Source Licensing" page (replacing the >>> current http://opensource.org/licenses/) would say (hopefully all >>> changes self-explanatory): >>> >>> " >>> Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source >>> Definition[link] - in essence, they allow software to be used, >>> modified, and redistributed without restriction. >> >> I don't agree with the "in essence" part. >> >>> * 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.) >> >> I've actually found the alphabetical list useful at times, FWIW. >> >> - Richard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
