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Special Treatment

Posted Oct 16, 2007 23:25 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Special Treatment by ncm
Parent article: OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

Whatever happened to the idea of having "recommended" licenses and "compliant, but please
don't use this redundant vanity license" licenses?

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Special Treatment

Posted Oct 17, 2007 0:03 UTC (Wed) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

Don, there's a committee recommendation about classification, that divides licences among these categories:

Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities
Special purpose licenses
Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses
Non-reusable licenses
Other/Miscellaneous licenses

There's been some ongoing wailing and gnashing of teeth about the draft contents of those lists -- and it's not yet incorporated into the main licence lists, anyway. I get the vibes that there will be some revisions, before that is done.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com