07th Apr 2005
Snip ‘dem licenses
“The Open Source Initiative has begun an effort to pare down the number of open-source licenses in widespread use. ”
It was good to see the CNet article “Open-source group to corral licenses” this morning. It’s been a long time coming. There are just way too many versions of Open Source licenses that all basically say the same thing. Take a look at the OSI site.
I got hung up on this a little bit when it came time to consider a license for FlexiPhoto – which to choose?
Another example of way too many: the myriad variants of Linux distros. My concern is that the common “enemy”, as it were, is Windows, but the F/OSS comunity wastes a lot of energy by not presenting enough of a common face to the outside world. Too many licenses to think about. Too many Linux distros vying for attention. The Bazaar has a lot of alleys these days …
