Open season on licenses

摘要

During the past few weeks, the hottest issue for hand-wringing among pundits on, and would-be participants in, the open-source community has been open-source license proliferation. Computer Associates International has been making statements about the need for a new, modular open-source license, and the Open Source Initiative—the organization that blesses licenses as open source—is talking about tightening its requirements with an eye toward reducing the number of licenses certified.