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Special TreatmentSpecial TreatmentPosted Oct 16, 2007 21:15 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Special Treatment by sbergman27 Parent article: OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions
Such a statement would have been more convincing had they started by denying GPLv3... a new license for which there was really no compelling reason.That was not the point of view of the creators of GPLv2, the license most often used in Free software. You will appreciate the fact that their opinion carries more weight than yours. It is *not* the OSI's place to fight license proliferation.They have stated such a purpose in the past. A sure way to irrelevance is to express a bunch of good wishes and then not come through with them. How about the first criterion to avoid said proliferation? 1. The license must not be duplicativeWhy approve a license and then put in the category "Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses (9)"?
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Special Treatment Posted Oct 17, 2007 7:12 UTC (Wed) by Rehdon (guest, #45440) [Link] Because they're *not* duplicative: they are Microsoft's versions of the GPL and BSD licence, only specially tailored so that they aren't GPL-compatible, as it has been pointed out above. So they serve a very special purpose: have MS experiment with OSS without risking to contribute a single line of code to the OSS world. Are they bad (in that they betray the spirit of FLOSS)? Yes. Are they OSI-compliant? Yes again (based on what I've read, I'll skip actually reading them thank you :). I really can't see another outcome out of this submission. rehdon
Special Treatment Posted Oct 17, 2007 20:16 UTC (Wed) by RussNelson (guest, #27730) [Link] My blog allows me to put postings into categories. After a few years of doing this, and after participating in the license proliferation committee, I'm convinced that ``categories'' is a wrong solution for organizing blog postings and licenses. I'm also convinced that ``subdirectories'' is a wrong solution for organizing files. A category is a single attribute. What you really want is tags. Yes, everything needs a unique tag which nothing else has, but we have a perfectly fine system for uniqueness: time. Every moment is unique. So, a license like the GPL might have "reciprocal,popular,stewarded,fsf" on it. Etc.
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