Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing
."The first was getting the world to buy into open source, and the second was convincing the ITU and the governments of most countries worldwide to give up the Morse Code test for ham radio licenses."
The license is one component among several – the paid license needs to be hammered out – that he hopes will support his proposed"There are two paradigms that you can use for this," he explains in an interview."One is Spotify and the other is ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. The difference is that Spotify is a for-profit corporation. And they have to distribute profits to their stockholders before they pay the musicians.
"The license that I have written is long – about as long as the Affero GPL 3, which is now 17 years old, and had to deal with a lot more problems than the early licenses," Perens explains."So, at least my license isn'tlong. It handles all of the abuses of developers that I'm conscious of, including things I was involved in directly like
In 2020 Perens resigned from the Open Source Initiative, the non-profit overseeing the OSD, when the organization was considering whether to give its blessing to theHe has since come to believe that open source licensing has created its own set of problems.
Asked about Perens's argument that open source developers aren't being fairly compensated for their work, Collier is less emphatic.
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