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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. WoW! by Stanistani · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does fewers licenses means I wonts be ables to plays mines Warcrafts froms mines usereds boxs?

    *Shakes head*

    So, fewer types of licenses means less confusion?

    I thought this was Open Source...

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  2. somewhat off-topic by negative3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdotting does not differentiate between open source & closed source (try to go to opensource.org now!)

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  3. Anti BSD Bias by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Troll

    "cant get rid of it"..

    Well, at leats its not viral as the GPL is.

    Belive it or not, the BSD license is much more open.

    If you dont like to extend the much greater freedom, then dont use it.. But dont bash it or those that choose to use it.

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