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> I'd like to see the OSI convene the organizations that have issued the various licenses and get them to agree on a new OSS licensing scheme modeled after the
by type0 6y ago
> I'd like to see the OSI convene the organizations that have issued the various licenses and get them to agree on a new OSS licensing scheme modeled after the system used by the Creative Commons.
this is standards proliferate
https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- ternaryoperator 6y agoNo, licenses are not standards that require code changes to be adopted. The OSS community has a long history of moving off old licenses to new versions and the OSI lists many retired licenses due to this. (When Apache replaced their 1.1 license with the current 2.0 license, there was no complaint about proliferation. Rather, the community adopted the new license and today 1.1 is entirely dead.)
- type0 6y agoLicense versions are a different thing. Changing to a completely different one in practice is a huge undertaking since every past contributor needs to agree to it