Thursday August 07, 2008 links for 2008-08-07 [delicious.com]
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The zembly project continues to come out of stealth mode with this Facebook application that creates a prediction market for Beijing results. I especially like the way they have used the opportunity to promote OpenOffice.org at the foot of the application!
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Is VirtualBox destined to be the Firefox of virtualisation?
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O'Grady makes exactly the point I made in Mark's comments. I didn't mention "choice" and Mark's attempt to change the subject is just the sort of hiding-of-the-real issue that O'Grady describes. I still assert OSI is the true arbiter of what is & is not an open source license and that's not for others to usurp.
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Yes, that really is the Mac StarOffice 9 beta for free download.
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Interesting explanation, putting the difference all down to how people feel comfortable acquiring their software.
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( Aug 07 2008, 10:30:13 AM PDT )
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For the sake of clarity, Here is the list of OSI-approved licenses that we did not offer when we started, but have since added:
* GPLv3
Here is the list of OSI-approved licenses that we used to offer, but have since removed:
* MPL 1.1
And finally, here is the list of OSI-approved licenses that we have never offered:
* Academic Free License 3.0 (AFL 3.0)
* Affero GNU Public License
* Adaptive Public License
* Apache License (1.0)
* Apple Public Source License
* Attribution Assurance Licenses
* Boost Software License (BSL1.0)
* Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1
* Common Development and Distribution License
* Common Public Attribution License 1.0 (CPAL)
* Common Public License 1.0
* CUA Office Public License Version 1.0
* EU DataGrid Software License
* Eclipse Public License
* Educational Community License, Version 2.0
* Eiffel Forum License
* Eiffel Forum License V2.0
* Entessa Public License
* Fair License
* Frameworx License
* Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer
* IBM Public License
* Intel Open Source License
* ISC License
* Jabber Open Source License
* Lucent Public License (Plan9)
* Lucent Public License Version 1.02
* Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
* Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)
* MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace License (CVW License)
* Motosoto License
* Multics License
* NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3
* NTP License
* Naumen Public License
* Nethack General Public License
* Nokia Open Source License
* Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0 (Non-Profit OSL 3.0)
* OCLC Research Public License 2.0
* Open Group Test Suite License
* Open Software License 3.0 (OSL 3.0)
* PHP License
* Python license (CNRI Python License)
* Python Software Foundation License
* Qt Public License (QPL)
* RealNetworks Public Source License V1.0
* Reciprocal Public License
* Reciprocal Public License 1.5 (RPL1.5)
* Ricoh Source Code Public License
* Simple Public License 2.0
* Sleepycat License
* Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL)
* Sun Public License
* Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0
* University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
* Vovida Software License v. 1.0
* W3C License
* wxWindows Library License
* X.Net License
* Zope Public License
* zlib/libpng license
At no time has Google claimed that any of these licenses are "invalid" open source licenses. At no time has Google "usurped" OSI's "authority" (whatever the hell that even means). Get off your high horse.
Posted by Mark on August 07, 2008 at 07:18 PM PDT #
Hey Mark - You'd probably not remember, but it was controversial at the outset and the reasons haven't changed. As you yourself said[1], "Google Project Hosting is — and has always been — a tool to fight license proliferation. It is only incidentally useful." It's political, and I'm calling you on it all the time you and your colleagues pretend otherwise.
And I'm amused and flattered to be accused of high riding by a master altitude jockey :-)
[1] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/08/05/placating
Posted by Simon Phipps on August 07, 2008 at 07:32 PM PDT #