Re: Licensing

On Wednesday 2008-01-09 17:13 +0100, Bert Bos wrote:
> The current license requires that somebody who wants to publish modified 
> tests asks permission. (Making and using them is fine.) If W3C gets 
> overwhelmed with requests it is early enough to think about a new 
> system. The few requests we got so far didn't pose problems.

That's not sufficient for most open-source projects.  Open source
projects typically provide their entire source under a specific
license or set of licenses.  They don't provide it under the terms
"you can use it under license X if you ask the permission of the
following 15 companies/people/organizations".  They provide it under
"you can use it under license X".  The difference between those two
can be a major obstacle to such use.  (Given the chance that at
least 1 of the 15 organizations won't respond, or will deny the
request, it's usually not even worth bothering to ask.)

-David

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L. David Baron                                 http://dbaron.org/
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Received on Thursday, 10 January 2008 20:41:38 UTC