Thanks John for having an accurate memory! On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 1:56 AM John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> There was a time when the OSI believed that the more licenses the merrier, > as long as they all complied with the OSD. At that time we were trying to > encourage companies to release their code as FLOSS, no matter what annoying > conditions they put on it. Only later did the costs to both developers and > end users of having zillions of slightly different and incompatible > licensing regimes sink in. > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 6:46 PM Christine Hall <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It's my understanding that OSI has always campaigned against license >> proliferation. >> >> Christine Hall >> Publisher & Editor >> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free >> http://fossforce.com >> >> On 7/3/19 5:29 PM, James wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:17 PM Bruce Perens <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> James, I understand the problem of the companies pushing for that, but >> a license that everyone can use except Amazon, or SaaS companies, or SaaS >> companies over a certain size, isn't copyleft and isn't "strong" copyleft. >> It's just restrictive. Heather and Kyle came up with "Polyform", which IMO >> sounds too much like "colorforms" but it's fine as long as you don't call >> it "Open Source" or "Free Software". >> > >> > Perhaps I didn't phrase clearly, but I wasn't disagreeing with you >> > about not calling it "Open Source" or "Free Software". I agree it >> > shouldn't be called that. >> > >> > Clarified for you, my comments meant to state: >> > 1) OSI should campaign against proliferation as part of it's mission. >> > 2) Companies are now trying out restrictive, non-open source licenses. >> > I think it's a mistake, and what they really want is normal copyleft. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > James >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > License-discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > >> http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> License-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >> > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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