I got an excellent comment about yesterday’s entry (about the 58 open source licenses), relating the story to closed source licensing. While compatibility is generally not an issue there, some standardisation would of course be nice so that users of closed source software can easily assess whether a license or EULA is suitable for them.

Take the 95.000 projects hosted on SourceForge, most of them are GPL but at the very least they would use one of the 58 OSI licenses. Looking at it from that perspective, open source isn’t doing too badly, really!

I think it would still be good to make it even simpler, but in relative terms it’s very standardised already.