Quoting Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > According to John Hasler: > > I also find it a bit worrisome that you could misjudge such an > > obviously non-free license. > > == PERSONAL OPINION FOLLOWS == > == I don't speak for OSI on this, not yet anyway == > > We assumed that the export clause was a no-op, given that Apple is a > US corporation. We were, apparently, wrong. We're hackers, not > lawyers. (But we are looking to get a lawyer involved from now on.) > > Besides, hindsight is 20/20 -- if the export clause is so 'obviously' > an OSD violation, why is it only now a subject of public debate? >
Mostly because this was one of the first license specifically using the OSD as a trademark, more specifically, with a specific one. However, it's not the first time this issue is debated in Debian regarding the DFSG. In fact, I think I first see one of this issue even before the DFSG. It's so in the spirit of Debian (which, I supposed, is the same spirit on which the OSD is build) that's why we find this so obvious. Also, IIRC, we just have to suggest to change his license, explaining them he *don't need* to say that the licensees should not broke the law with it, and he made the change. [sorry for my English, I'm not really sure if I explain it correctly.] Please looks for 'embargo' in oldest mail archives, I think you can find something (not sure, I don't check myself :-/). BTW, you have to understand that not all licenses we discuss here make the headlines, we aren't the Supreme Court of Free License (although sometime... ;-). Do you even know that we even make the vim license change because of the postcard clause? And it's not because vim aren't a popular software! > == PERSONAL OPINION PRECEDES == > So it's mine. > -- > Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles Chevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Debian GNU/Linux maintainer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://www.tzone.org/~fabien RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
