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Re: OSI Certified licenses

From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: OSI Certified licenses
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:04:04 -0400

>>>>> "GL" == Greg London <email AT greglondon.com> writes:

GL> OSI does not address licenses outside of software licenses.
GL> They have approved the GNU-GPL, but they have not approved the
GL> GNU-FDL, specifically because it is for documentation.

Are you sure that's why they haven't approved it? As I said before,
the Academic Free License, listed as an OSI-certified license, seems
to be primarily for non-software works.

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/

I've sent off a question to the OSI licenses-discuss list, asking how
and if CC licenses would be considered for approval.

~ESP

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OSI Certified licenses, Evan Prodromou, 04/26/2004
- Re: OSI Certified licenses, Greg London, 04/26/2004
  - Re: OSI Certified licenses, Evan Prodromou, 04/27/2004
    - Re: OSI Certified licenses, Greg London, 04/27/2004