FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licenses

FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licenses

Posted Oct 17, 2007 21:29 UTC (Wed) by Tashlan (guest, #17277)
In reply to: FSF should also acknowledge that these are Free Software licenses by rickmoen
Parent article: OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

> .. that horse long ago left the stable. Licensing incompatibility, and even the deliberate
>  kind, certainly didn't start with Microsoft Corporation.

Yes, that is true.  License proliferation is a serious issue that didn't start with Microsoft.
I was merely commenting that creating such a license fits well into their playbook.
Unfortunately, most corporations take this route as well.  :(

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yes and no.  In the early 2000s, they were all publishing their own licences, but afterward,
Mozilla did a big relicense to GPL, and Sun's latest big liberation (Java) went GPL.

I think the trend might be in reverse now.