Re: [License-discuss] Fact-gathering on OSI-approved licenses

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 4:35 PM Pamela Chestek < pamela.ches...@opensource.org> wrote: > > I'm hoping people will be interested in helping fill it out. I suggest > as the first step that we take a look and see whether the headings are > sufficiently clear and whether we should be recording any fur

Re: [License-discuss] Fact-gathering on OSI-approved licenses

On 8/22/2019 2:22 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:25 PM Bruce Perens via License-discuss > wrote: >> Pam, >> >> I am actually more interested in the licenses that OSI has historically >> rejected, and the reasons given when this has been archived. > I agree, even though a

Re: [License-discuss] Fact-gathering on OSI-approved licenses

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:25 PM Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote: > > Pam, > > I am actually more interested in the licenses that OSI has historically > rejected, and the reasons given when this has been archived. I agree, even though attempting to gather that information would be much mor

Re: [License-discuss] Fact-gathering on OSI-approved licenses

Pam, I am actually more interested in the licenses that OSI has historically rejected, and the reasons given when this has been archived. For example, the BitMover license, which required that users connect to a logging server operated by BitMover Inc. to log their usage, was rejected. I'm not sa

Re: [License-discuss] Fact-gathering on OSI-approved licenses

Interesting data gathering... Perhaps this is something the guys at https://tldrlegal.com could help fill out or incorporate into their site? Seems entirely relevant to what they’re trying to do too. Cheers! Sean > On Aug 19, 2019, at 4:13 PM, Pamela Chestek > wrot

[License-discuss] Fact-gathering on OSI-approved licenses

 Hi everyone, We've had a lot of discussion about the attributes of open source licenses and what is and isn't acceptable. I thought historical data on approved licenses might prove valuable, or at least interesting. I prepared a spreadsheet that lists all the OSI-approved licenses, with columns f