[foundation-board] Openness and licences...

James Casbon casbon at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 13:10:07 UTC 2012


On 3 January 2012 12:00, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> So, this is my core concern: if we believe in "open", why are we using
> a licence that fails the test?
>
> I would like to separate that question from the question of which
> licence we should be using: first we should agree that GPL does not
> meet our standards.

Thanks, Ben.

I agree that GPL does not meet our standards.

PS Also worth noting many of the OKFN's projects on github have no
license, which should definitely not be the case.




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