<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> (This is long, gnarly thread, but I just like to think about this sort of stuff, what can I say...) <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/27/2016 09:05 AM, Walter Bender wrote: </div> <blockquote class=" cite" id="mid_CADf7C8skcMNexjikXTgFjCyM1sgFhjHfBieNEAksufSRBz2QOg_mail_gmail_com" cite="mid:CADf7C8skcMNexjikXTgFjCyM1sgFhjHfBieNEAksufSRBz2QOg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">This has been the topic of a lot of discussion on the FOSS foundation list of late. I think there is a movement afoot to push them towards a default FOSS license.</pre> </blockquote> This is interesting: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://250bpm.com/blog:82">http://250bpm.com/blog:82</a> Shows a graph of decline of software published on GitHub with any license at all. I think a repo needs to make its users choose a license--any license--but should not publish publicly until a license has been chosen. The "default" is a suggestion for convenience. Defaults do have implications for what choices people make, but right now the "default" is "no license at all" (ambiguous to its community and legally proprietary). </body> </html>