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
> 
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