Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"?

2014-04-29 Thread Philip Odence
gt;> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"? Philip Odence suggested: > Hey maybe “well-understood” is a good alternative to “standard." Note that the GPL is one of the "least-understood" licenses

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"?

2014-04-29 Thread Philip Odence
kipedia refers to the CPOL license as "mainly applied to content that is being published on a single community site for software developers" known as The Code Project. Wikipedia further reports that the CPOL license is neither "open" as defined by OSI nor "free" as def

Re: [License-discuss] FAQ entry (and potential website page?) on "why standard licenses"?

2014-04-28 Thread Philip Odence
In case it helps, Black Duck publishes a top licenses list based on the number of projects in our KnowledgeBase (out of a current total of about a million) that utilize each respective license. http://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/data/top-20-open-source-licenses The webpage only shows the

Re: [License-discuss] [Infrastructure] Machine readable source of OSI approved licenses?

2014-02-25 Thread Philip Odence
Below is a simple example of a marked up license. The symbols << and >> designate the beginning and end of mark up statements. In this case the top section is optional and marked as such with beginoptional and endoptional. Within that and further down in the text are a total of three places where

Re: [License-discuss] [Infrastructure] Machine readable source of OSI approved licenses?

2014-02-25 Thread Philip Odence
We'll get you some examples and some more detail, but the main idea is to support matching (for both humans and programs). The idea is to do as much as we can with the general guidelines, but to mark up where need be (as in my BSD copyright text example). From: Luis Villa mailto:l...@lu.is>> R

[License-discuss] OSI and the SPDX license list

2014-01-23 Thread Philip Odence
rally coordinate for mutual benefit. I would be happy to organize, if someone will suggest the appropriate OSI participants. Thanks for your time, Phil L. Philip Odence Vice President of Corporate and Business Development Black Duck Software, Inc. 8 New England Executive Park, Suite 211, Burl

[License-discuss] OSI and the SPDX license list

2014-01-23 Thread Philip Odence
rally coordinate for mutual benefit. I would be happy to organize, if someone will suggest the appropriate OSI participants. Thanks for your time, Phil L. Philip Odence Vice President of Corporate and Business Development Black Duck Software, Inc. 8 New England Executive Park, Suite 211, Burl