I would start here
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/education/licenses/index_html#OpenSSl
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

List of FSF approved software licenses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licenses

OSI page you are talking a bout
http://www.opensource.org/licenses


Chris...




On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Chris Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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