CPAL Approved By OSI (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw looks into the creation of the Common Public Attribution License. "Ross Mayfield of SocialText submitted a license, the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), which was just approved by OSI as an Open Source license. It is being spun by some as a "victory" for the logo-on-every-page crowd, but it's not that simple. I'd describe it as a compromise in that the license is a very limited arrangement to make sure authors do get some acknowledgement if others do, and the language comes from an OSI-approved attribution license already in existence."

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