Open Source Licenses

This post together with the first comment pretty much sum my own opinion on the matter. I also think that all licenses should have a human-readable version like the Creative Commons (example) instead of just having the lawyer-readable legal code (example). Is the open source community made of lawyers? Off course not and most of the open source contributions have so far been made by individuals not companies. These individuals are usually tech people (programmers, system administrators, engineers, etc) who have no special legal expertise. It's not that licenses are hard to understand, they're usually not (well, at least not the ones I've read - BSD, MIT, part of the GPL - too boring for me, and a few others). It's just a waste of time and raises the bar for people who are either new to the community or just want to make a casual contribution. It might even scare them initially.