FOSS License Proliferation Adding Complexity

E5Rebel writes "Business is embracing open source like never before, but the effective demise of SCO's claims against Linux doesn't mean an end to licensing problems, an analyst warns. The debate on Slashdot seems to focus on the GPL and its virtues, but there are 1,000-plus open source licenses (according to analyst Saugatuck), and businesses face having to manage multiple licenses within a single open source product. What can be done to minimize multiple-license pain for corporate open source adopters?"

Comments

Re:1000+ ???

[Knuckles]

And they are written in caps.

Object oriented licencing?

[IPFreely]

So what we really need is a smaller set of base licenses that include object oriented features like inheritence, interfaces and templates.

I can see it now:

public MyLicense extends BSD implements Attribution;

or

public NPL extends GPL implements OwnerTakeback;