On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
This was my first concern when I saw the announcement. They referred to "an in-depth analysis of existing licenses", but I have seen no evidence they are even aware of the strong message from both FSF and OSI that creating new licenses is usually inferior to choosing an existing, well-understood recommended one.
It looks like that "in-depth" analysis couldn't be anything but a few google searches leading into one too-many GPL vs BSD flame wars. So in order to avoid choosing a side, the decision would be to create a new one.
Absurd, but seems to me the most likely case.
Rui