The Industry choice

[Terry Reedy]

"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message 
news:rZbDd.68969$Jk5.62111 at lakeread01...
> Absolutely not. Some people want to share under very specific conditions, 
> hence the proliferation of licenses in the open source world.

Indeed, Prof. Lessig at Standford University, I believe, recently designed 
the Creative Commons license with a checklist of options with the intention 
of allowing and thereby encouraging people to share under the specific 
conditions they are willing to share under.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Terry J. Reedy