Lawrence Rosen, author of the Open Software License ('OSL'), has announced on the OSI's licence-discuss list a draft of version 3 of the OSL (pdf). Rosen explains that many of the changes are in response to report by the European Commission on open source software licensing.

While the OSL is used by fewer than 1 per cent of the projects at Source Forge, it [has attracted] the attention of corporations considering releasing code under an open source licence ... A new and improved OSL will only continue to attract the attention of software licensors.

Originally by bIPlog at boalt.org, 12:36 PM

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