Paul Vinkenoog wrote:

> "Is the Initial Developer's license recognized as an open source
> license?"
>
> The answer to the question depends ...
> But the IDPL is _not_ an OSI-approved license. Getting the OSI to
> approve a license involves a thorough legal analysis which must be
> done by a lawyer and therefore costs (a lot of?) money - see
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.php
>

That's part of the answer. The other part is that the OSI has decided
to approve only licenses that can be reused. The IDPL probably can but
there is a similar license developed by SUN that they're likely to
suggest we use. Given that we can't change the IPL parts anyway, it's
hard for me to see benefit in fighting through the approval process.

Regards,


Ann