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OSI Hopes To Decrease Number of Licenses

Posted by timothy on from the but-licenses-are-art-in-themselves dept.

Noksagt writes "Various outlets report that the OSI may cut down the increasing number of Open Source licenses. Right now there are about 50 approved licenses; incompatible licenses confuse and impede developers and end users alike. The OSDL has been pushing hard for this at LinuxWorld. Sam Greenblatt, a member of the OSDL board, said 'Eventually there should be three licenses: The GPL, a commercial version of the GPL, and, of course, there will be the BSD because you can't rid of it.'"

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  1. but by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    what about the LGPL - you need that if you dont want to go BSD and have everybody steal your code and put it in commercial software, but you want commercial software to beable to link to it

    like for libraries, like gtk

  2. Re:Gentlemen, Start Your Engines... by nate+nice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    rofl, thank you, may I have another!

    Your mams's a fucktard!

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  3. Re:How can they do this? by Phleg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The qmail license? You mean the one that, for no reason other than djb's being a prick, disallows repackaging of his software or changing which directories it uses to something a bit less crack-addled?

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  4. Re:commercial GPL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah.. the OSI is totally sold out to commercial entities; so they'd like to rewrite the GPL to their own interestes.