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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. Re:A thorn in the side of OSS? by sanityspeech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What you state may very well be true, but that did not stop the Catholic Church from condeming Galileo.

    Who knows? There may still be people out there that believe the world is flat.

    Not a troll, just a thought.