FSF's licence list
Ciaran O'Riordan
ciaran at fsfe.org
Tue Feb 26 00:33:29 UTC 2008
"David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> writes:
> Interesting it's not listed on http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/
> - which is the usual place people would go to check if a given licence
> is GPL-compatible.
FSF's list isn't intended to be complete.
I don't know FSF's reasons for choosing the licences they have, but I think
that OSI's approach (where contributors to licence proliferation are
rewarded with free advertising) proved that completeness has drawbacks.
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