Re:Simple description of popular open source licenses
by scythe on Saturday April 30, 2011 @10:15PM
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This would matter if there were more than 12 licenses. As it stands, it takes less than a minute to look at every possibility on the chart.
This list is less a description and more a taxonomy, which means that it's not valuable to anyone new to these licenses. When starting a project, it's best to convey the benefits of each license in a straightforward manner to whoever the decision maker is. A tree like this will only confuse and ensure that an ill-fitting license is chosen from the onset.
Simple, written definitions are therefore best, and are similar to the article here: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL