I know the OSI has a page that lists all their approved licenses with the text, but that is not what I am looking for. Does anyone have a link to a nice site that gives an executive summary of what is in the various open source licenses? Or a site that compares and contrasts the popular open source licenses?
Chris On Aug 15, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Ragi Burhum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Chris Penn <[email protected]> >> >> This is why GPL is sooo much better. > > from the article you sent: > > "You seem to be missing the point of why Google didn't just use the GPL'd > JavaME. Sun deliberately removed the Classpath exception on JavaME > specifically because they saw that most of their licensing opportunities were > on mobile platforms. This meant that any *application* developers targeting a > GPL'd JavaME platform would be forced to GPL their applications. Not > surprisingly Google saw this would be undesirable when trying to attract > developers to the platform." > > So from what I gather, it would have meant that if Google had chosen that > path, every single app in Android would have had to be a GPL app... not a > very attractive option > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
_______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
