Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 63.194.132.58]
on August 09, 2007 07:57 AM
I'd like to clear up a few mistakes in this comment. The license in question is the "Open Software License", which is an OSI approved license, not one written by some clown. (The mistake in the name in the article may have been my fault during the interview.) The OSL was written by noted open source IP attorney Lawrence Rosen, who was one of the founding members of the Open Source Initiative, and while nowhere near as widely known as the GPL the OSL is widely used. A quick search on SourceForge.net shows over 1,000 projects using the OSL.
The Open Solution Alliance will take code contributions like the Lightweight Authentication Mechanism, but we require that the code be released under an OSI approved license and contains no IP infringements. Requiring a specific license will discourage contributions, which I do not want to do.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 63.194.132.58] on August 09, 2007 07:57 AMThe Open Solution Alliance will take code contributions like the Lightweight Authentication Mechanism, but we require that the code be released under an OSI approved license and contains no IP infringements. Requiring a specific license will discourage contributions, which I do not want to do.
-Barry Klawans
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