From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T16:20:48+09:00
Subject: Re: which open source licence?

Selon petermichaux@yahoo.com:

> Hi,
>
> I think I've seen an open source licence that requires any
> modifications/improvements to be reported back to the original project.
> Anyone here know if that licence really exists?
>

I doubt such a license would be considered open source. At least not the way you
describe it.

> Is there a good, brief summary comparison of the main open source
> licenses? I've looked around and the comparisons are either simpleton
> or just lists of way to many licenses.
>

http://www.opensource.org/ is the authoritative source for open source licenses.
http://swan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/LicenseWizard/OSI_License_compare_v3.0.4EN.pdf is
a nice PDF file which shows most OSI certified licenses and compares them in a
table.
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