> On Mon 08/07/06 at 17:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Monday 07 August 2006 03:47 pm, Christof Pintaske wrote:
>> > CDDL is an OSI approved open source license
>> > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php). What other criteria are
>> > there to make an open source license a good open source license ?
>>
>> Complete acceptance from the open source communities.
>
> Exactly. Just like the GPL and BSD camps completely accept one another.
>
> Look, you are _never_ going to get complete acceptance. If you start with
> that as a goal, you are setting yourself up for failure, and you are going
> to waste a lot of time and energy trying to get there.
>
> Each license has an extremely vocal minority that will always treat every
> alternate license as a heresy. Even engaging with these people is a waste
> of time. It's a religious issue and, despite their protestations, reason
> doesn't enter into it. If you enjoy the argument, then have at it, but
> don't expect to actually get anywhere with it.
>
I just like software that works. Free is really cool too.
The license is just a document written by lawyers, not developers.
:-)
Dennis Clarke
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