Re: Open Source licensing, Take 2

>> http://www.mass.gov/Aitd/docs/quickrefchart.xls
>
> Without looking, I know that 45-50 of those are meaningless distractions
> that some company or project pushed for vanity reasons. There are a small
> number of open source licenses that might merit our serious attention.
> Like maybe 4-5, tops.
>
I analyzed this a bit more and have a few more comments (btw, I said 54 but
it's really 52). Going by the columns in the referenced spreadsheet, I
think we want the following to be "Yes.":

COLUMNS = "Yes"
b,c,g,h,i,j

I we agree on those, there are only two like that: Mozilla Public License
1.1 and the Common Public License. However, I think we want k too ("Must
prominently note on the modified version that it has been modified, and note
the date of modification"). This may not be hugely important, but I think
we should have that. No existing license has all that. In addition, I
think we want o="No" (non-viral).

To have all that (and probably more), no existing license works for us.

Alan D.

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