eWeek: Open-Source Licenses Get Categorized, Not Ranked

"The long-delayed and much-awaited Open Source Initiative report on open-source license proliferation has been released, but the current licenses have been placed into three broad categories and have not been ranked beyond that.

"The License Proliferation Committee was set up in 2005 in response to the growing concern that license proliferation was harmful to the success of open source..."

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