Re: BCS OS Licence

[ptansom]

		  Personally I would discourage this. There are more disadvantages than you may think. Putting together a legal license is a nightmare of a job, and if you want one that would stand up in a global capacity (and I would suggest that one legal in only one or a few countries is of little use) then you will need significant legal consultation from people who know both the law and computers.

In addition to this there are moves to reduce the number of open source licenses to reduce confusion, so the likelihood of getting approval of the FSF for yet another one may be slim. The FSF are also a good example of how complicated it is to create a license. They have come in for a significant amount of criticism for their documentation license (and clashed with the Debian project over the definition of 'free' in their respective contexts - amonts others) with the GFDL. They have spent a lot of time putting this together so that it can stand up globally and be accepted by publishers and the free software community alike.

To sum up I would suggest that this would be a mamoth task that is largely unnecessary and would distract from other arguably more valuable things that we could do.