It's refreshing to see people trying to make things simple for a change. The legal differences between different OS licenses are overwhelming at first.
Sure, as someone pointed out above, this may mean I may not have to investigate and think about the differences between existing licenses. Well, IMO, that would be a 'good thing'. I have other things to think about.
And imagine all those for who english is not their mother tongue. With this license, I would only have a few words to teach my francophone colleagues. Actually, come to think of it, I'm sure a lot of anglophones can't understand legalese either...
This would actually be my main critique of OS: so much of it is needlessly complicated.
Too many long licenses, short and/or inaccurate or no docs/installation notes, ideological camps all over the spectrum and so little plain speak.
Looking for blog software recently, I was unable to find something that I thought worked well that I could maintain (I guess I'll have to learn to use Perl). Sorting through all the different projects, I wished people would say "we started this slash port because we wanted something in our fave language"/"we think slash is a great idea, but has a poor architecture and would be easier to maintain written in an OO language".
For the most part, and on most OS projects, No such luck. Although this idea introduces even more licenses, it's still a step in the right direction: simplicity. Now, if we could make it that easy to find/compare OS software...
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It's refreshing to see people trying to make things simple for a change. The legal differences between different OS licenses are overwhelming at first.
Sure, as someone pointed out above, this may mean I may not have to investigate and think about the differences between existing licenses. Well, IMO, that would be a 'good thing'. I have other things to think about.
And imagine all those for who english is not their mother tongue. With this license, I would only have a few words to teach my francophone colleagues. Actually, come to think of it, I'm sure a lot of anglophones can't understand legalese either...
This would actually be my main critique of OS: so much of it is needlessly complicated.
Too many long licenses, short and/or inaccurate or no docs/installation notes, ideological camps all over the spectrum and so little plain speak.
Looking for blog software recently, I was unable to find something that I thought worked well that I could maintain (I guess I'll have to learn to use Perl). Sorting through all the different projects, I wished people would say "we started this slash port because we wanted something in our fave language"/"we think slash is a great idea, but has a poor architecture and would be easier to maintain written in an OO language".
For the most part, and on most OS projects, No such luck. Although this idea introduces even more licenses, it's still a step in the right direction: simplicity. Now, if we could make it that easy to find/compare OS software...