Google Goes After Open Source Licensing Cruft

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 27, 2007 @10:56AM from the wheel-reinvention dept.

pacopico writes "Google has secret plans to put out its own open source software license, according to this story in The Register. Apparently, Google's efforts will center around developing a simplified open source license that makes it easier for developers to stay "within the spirit" of the license in addition to the law. Chris DiBona at Google was asked about the plans but won't budge with details yet. Still, The Register claims that Google's efforts could improve the license proliferation issues facing the OSI."

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Re:people assume open source = GPL by BrainInAJar · 2007-09-27 17:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

RMS is a hippie that thinks nobody should be allowed to make non-GPL software at all. It wasn't until people started not paying attention to him that FOSS outside of BSD took off at all in any real sense