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With these not-very-open-source licenses I'm glad when they give them names that are easy to filter out. "Shared" and "Business" are good terms to filter on, bu
by benatkin 5y ago
With these not-very-open-source licenses I'm glad when they give them names that are easy to filter out. "Shared" and "Business" are good terms to filter on, but it seems "Public License" is one as well. If it says "Public License" I know I'm not going to like it, whether it's an OSI-approved ones like the GPL, EPL, MPL, LGPL, AGPL, or this one which isn't OSI-approved and doesn't meet the OSD.
- josephcsible 5y agoWhy don't you like the GPL?
- kemitchell 5y agoThe phrase "public license" generally means that it's a license for everyone, all comers, as distinct from a private license for a specific customer or counterparty. I would describe all the licenses on Blue Oak's permissive license list (https://blueoakcouncil.org/list https://blueoakcouncil.org/list) as "public licenses". Except perhaps for some of the truly defective ones rated "lead'.