I'll follow Christopher's good example, and also try to cut to the chase. Quoting Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss ([email protected]):
> Except that we don’t need a representative number. If use cannot be > found, that would not imply there isn’t any. I certainly haven’t said > that. Correct me if I'm wrong (I've been distracted by other things and might have missed something), but wasn't the idea to use licence auditing to determine which OSI Approved licences are unused? Leaving aside any wrangling over 'representative numbers', my basic point (and, I believe, Thorsten's) is that just grepping through several large public repos doesn't tell the tale on the question posed, because of too-limited search scope, e.g., missing everyone who didn't drink the GitHub Kool-Aid. > Doing nothing is not constructive either, imho, and that is perhaps > where we disagree. In science, nothing is quite as tragic as an experiment with inconclusive results, because you've done a lot of work, have lost months or years, and still don't have an answer. If I correctly understand what is proposed (grepping though large public repos for licensing references), the derived data seem doomed to be inconclusive. Or to put it another way, it's a classic managerial antipattern (and also failed classical syllogism) to think 'We must do something. X is something. Therefore we must do X.' _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
