OSI Approves Two New Licenses

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Initiative approved two new licenses. One, the Academic Free License is a MIT/BSD-like license . The other one, the Open Software License is an apparently GPL-incompatible "viral" license with some obnoxious clauses. Both have an interesting "mutual termination for patent action" clause - basically, the license terminates if you file a lawsuit in any court against any software that is licensed under an OSI approved license containing the same clause."

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Ughw

[chainrust]

Why more licenses?
The open source has enough licenses without throwing another into the mix, especially when they aren't even GPL-compatible.
All this does is confuse potential developers and users, making it harder for the mainsteam user to use Linux.