Open-Source Licenses Get Categorized, Not Ranked
The long-delayed and much-awaited Open Source Initiative report on open-source license proliferation has been released, but the current licenses have been placed into three broad categories and have not been ranked beyond that.
The License Proliferation Committee was set up in 2005 in response to the growing concern that license proliferation was harmful to the success of open source.
In fact the OSI, which approves licenses that meet the Open Source Definition, said at the time that "interference between different open-source licenses is now perceived as a sufficiently serious problem."
The first draft of the committee's report, initially expected by the end of 2005, was submitted to the OSI board late in July, said Diane Peters, the general counsel for the Open Source Development Labs and a member of the committee, at an interview at the annual LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco on Aug. 16.
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