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The SFLC's Legal Guide on Free Software

Posted Feb 15, 2008 6:40 UTC (Fri) by nicm (guest, #50555)
Parent article: The SFLC's Legal Guide on Free Software

Lots of good stuff, although I thought they should have stuck to the legal advantages of one
over the other rather than going into stuff like number of available developers and
speculation about why people use the license, both of which seem legally irrelevent

If they do have to go into advantages, they could have said more about other licenses (for
example, for what other licenses than BSD/ISC could you include /two/ examples verbatim in one
short section? - simplicity is a commonly cited benefit). Surely they could have covered more
than one type of non-GNU license, even in the first draft?

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Posted Feb 16, 2008 0:23 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

But especially for copyleft licenses, the size of the developer community and existing codebase is critical, and trumps any supposed legal advantages, because an incompatible license restricts code reuse and sharing.

I think they didn't go into a bunch of other licenses because they didn't want to promote a whole bunch of licenses.