Clarifying license content of Maintainers Manual
In recent discussions in the OSCOM Ad Hoc Committee on Governance, we discussed several questions and concerns about this section of the Maintainers Manual:
Observations included:
- Inclusion of a CLA as an option is confusing and probably inaccurate.
- Open Source projects choose their licenses for complex reasons, and in many ways a license is a developer culture decision. Having a specific list of allowed licenses is a potential anti-pattern.
- It would be common and reasonable to have a short list of recommended licenses, ideally to include a range of license flavors (copyleft, permissive, etc.) and versions within (ASL, MIT, and BSD for example).
- Missing a Creative Commons license choice, which would apply to content-only projects.
Note: issue is temporarily in this issue queue until a different project can be setup