On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:41 PM Richard Fontana <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 2:08 PM Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Since none of our current problem licenses are (3), maybe we could skip > >> that criterion? It seems too subjective to actually employ. Here's my > >> suggested criteria based on yours: > >> > >> 1. license does not in fact conform to the OSD (was erroneously > approved) > >> > >> 2. does not appear to be used for any currently available/working > >> software *and is redundant with more popular licenses* (added condition > >> mine). > > > > > > I would like to postpone the activity on #2. Let's first focus on > licenses that have actual problems. Arguably, if a license isn't being used > anyway, it cannot be an urgent problem. > > There are some influential people who use the fact that a given > obscure license was approved ~20 years ago to argue for approval of > new licenses with provisions that are problematic from a software > freedom perspective, or to justify policy positions on what open > source means that are at odds with mainstream views in open source > (notably in the standards context), If this is the case, then apparently the licenses used for such justification still fall under #1. > or simply to cast doubt on the > legitimacy of the OSI and the OSD. I believe that makes the problem > somewhat urgent in some cases (perhaps not in the case of licenses in > the badgeware category, though). > > Maybe also in this case. But I wonder whether this is really a problem or risk for OSI? It seems some who have their licenses rejected go on to vocally criticize the OSI. But I haven't observed that the mainstream open source community would sympathize very much with those outbursts. If anything there has been a surge to strengthen the OSI position to defend the "conservative" and unchanged OSD. Cleanup for its own sake is also a valuable activity. All I'm saying is let's start with attacking the very obvious problem cases first and see how that goes. henrik -- [email protected] +358-40-5697354 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/henrik-ingo/3/232/8a7
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