Google Goes After Open Source Licensing Cruft

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:We are NOT creating a new license

[I'm Don Giovanni]

What's so "refreshing" about it? Wasn't Dibona a slashdot editor before he went to Google? It's not like this is hostile territory for Google posters. Slashdot is one of Google's propaganda arms. Slashdot is to Google as Fox News is to Bush.

Now, it *is* refreshing when Microsoft guys post here (and they do), because they enter hostile territory and give a different perspective than the slashdot group-think. And it *would* be refreshing for Apple guys to post here because they never post anywhere. But Google guys posting here adds absolutely nothing.