Linux Leaders Call for Open Source License Simplification
The free and open source software industry should follow the lead of the Creative Commons project to make it easier for developers to understand and choose open source licenses.
That was one of the main messages that emerged from a debate on open source licensing at LinuxWorld in the UK last week, with Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager at Canonical Ltd, leading calls for the simplification of open source selection.
“Most free software developers don’t care about licenses, they write code and then pick a license,” he said. “With the GPL v3 you have to have an understanding of the law to understand it, we need something very much like the Creative Commons people are doing that makes it easy to understand licensing.”
Officially launched in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, the Creative Commons project is focused on encouraging the sharing of audio, image, video, text, and educational works.
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