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the licence proliferation project open source initiative 634 captures 01 jul 2007 01 sep 2026 nov dec jan 07 2021 2022 2023 success fail about this capture timestamps the wayback machine http web archive org web 20221207003324 https opensource org proliferation skip to main content home contact login search form open source initiative about board minutes organization operations articles of incorporation board elections bylaws conflict of interest volunteers staff associations history international authority recognition trademark logo trademark guidelines logo guidelines licenses open source definition licenses by category licenses by name license review process licence proliferation lp report to the board open standards the open standards requirement open standards requirement compliance open standards requirement rationale osr frequently asked questions membership become an osi member membership faq affiliates become an affiliate affiliate criteria mailing lists licensing code of conduct general code of conduct discussion list reports disclaimer for osi public forums policy on public communications and archives resources getting help bibliography open source case for business faq open source education articles books blog sponsors join the licence proliferation project early in the history of the open source movement there were a small number of projects covered by the small number of licenses that met the criteria of the osd these licenses included the gnu general public license the bsd license old and new varieties the mit license the mozilla public license and a few others a goal of the osi was to help expand the breadth and depth of open source software and to that end the osi encouraged companies projects and individuals writing software to consider using an open source license or if none seemed suitable but the idea of open source was to submit a new license that satisfied the osd while solving whatever problem made the existing licenses inappropriate over the years the osi received hundreds of licenses discussed all of them and approved approximately 60 this explosion of choice in licensing reflected both the interest in open source as well as the many particular ways in which people wanted to create and or manage their open source software unfortunately while all of these licenses provide the freedom to read modify and share source code many of the licenses were legally incompatible with other free and open source licenses seriously constraining the ways in which developers could innovate by combining rather than merely extending open source software moreover by inspection it was clear that some licenses were far more popular than others leading to a wide range of possible innovations while other licenses were seldom never or no longer used by any active projects these licenses served little purpose other than to steal attention from developers evaluating their choice of license for some new project it was impossible to know ahead of time which licenses would become popular and which would become less relevant however as believers in free market dynamics we were happy to let the market decide in 2004 some of our consitutents requested that we clear out the licensing deadwood so as to make more room and potentially ensure greater license compatibility for the more popular licenses and we agreed it was appropriate to do so the osi constituted a committee to study the issue and make recommends which are now public in 2006 the osi board accepted the license proliferation report you must have javascript enabled to use this form user login log in using openid what is openid username password log in using openid cancel openid login create new account request new password to promote and protect open source software and communities for over 20 years the open source initiative osi has worked to raise awareness and adoption of open source software and build bridges between open source communities of practice as a global non 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