OSI Approves New Open-Source License
The Open Source Initiative approved on July 25 its first new license in quite some time: the Common Public Attribution License, which is essentially the Mozilla Public License with a new attribution clause.
But the road to approval was long and expensive, Ross Mayfield, CEO and co-founder of Socialtext, which submitted the license, told eWEEK in an interview at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference here.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company, which provides enterprise wikis, started the process some nine months ago with its original submission to the OSI, known as the General Attribution Provision, or GAP, with the goal of filling a gap that exists in open-source licensing around attribution, he said.
The reason for that submission was that there were about 40 Mozilla-like attribution licenses, none of which followed the OSI submission process, including SugarCRM, Scalix, MuleSource and Zimbra.
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