From 4aa540f154208c6bd07c40c38a824ffaf903d1f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Linksvayer Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:31:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add existing project situation, leave 1 permissive, 1 copyleft choice This is a **draft**, probably will be controversial, definitely needs wordsmithing. Fixes #380 "No clear message on why to choose an open source license" -- added line under heading Fixes #335 "Feedback from John Sullivan talk on license choosers" -- remaining items were (roughly) to not surface patents at this level, and to surface choice between allowing proprirary/closed source or not Fixes #239 "Consider discussing ecosystems with an already predominant license" (well, it doesn't *discuss* but there's a page for that, unlinked til now) and makes the default recommendation of just about everyone -- use exisitng project/community's license if applicable -- prominent on the site Closes #48 "Proposed modified workflow: make permissive/copyleft and patents orthogonal" though probably not in way submitter would favor. I could be convinced that Apache-2.0 should be featured rather than MIT because of the former's express patent grant, but as it stands I'm not sure the complexity of Apache-2.0 (and for a weak grant, relative to GPLv3) is worth it relative to MIT. There's some value in the first license a user looks at being really easy to understand. The continued popularity of MIT and simialar ISC and BSD-2/3 seems to indicate people want that simplicity. And where are the holdups based on patents supposedly infringed by open source projects under licenses without an express patent grant that could not have happened had those projects been under Apache-2.0? Please educate me! :) Any and all feedback most welcome. --- _licenses/apache-2.0.txt | 1 - index.html | 34 ++++++++++++++++++---------------- licenses.html | 2 +- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/_licenses/apache-2.0.txt b/_licenses/apache-2.0.txt index db22023..887a370 100644 --- a/_licenses/apache-2.0.txt +++ b/_licenses/apache-2.0.txt @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: Apache License 2.0 spdx-id: Apache-2.0 redirect_from: /licenses/apache/ source: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html -featured: true description: A permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code. diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 8f70441..365ff23 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -6,43 +6,45 @@ title: Choose an open source license permalink: / --- +

An open source license protects contributors and users. Businesses and savvy developers won’t touch a project without this protection.

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{ Which of the following best describes your situation? }