[FC-discuss] Open Source less popular than Free Software

[MJ Ray]

Asheesh Laroia <freeculture at asheesh.org> wrote: [...]
> "The problem is not Open Source license proliferation, it is Free Software 
> license proliferation!"

AIUI, the OSI-approved set seems likely to be smaller, because OSI
only considers licences which are advocated to them, whereas FSF
considers any licences which hackers ask about.

To consider who is more responsible for proliferation, ask instead:
how many of the approved licences have been initiated by OSI leaders
and how many by FSF leaders?

FSF: GPL, LGPL, any more?

OSI: AFL, OSL and the entire MPL family, including IPL, APL, RicohPL,
NOSL and so on - any more?

It seems pretty clear to me that, by failing to make the Mozilla PL
general and by promoting modification-prohibited licences like AFL and
OSL, OSI's leaders have cursed us with proliferation, but have I
misunderstood?

Regards,
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