Hello Tom (and other licence-discuss subscribers) First, IANAL, and second, I haven't actually studied the OSI Certification requirements thoroughly. What I have noticed is that the "Original Contributor" is defined as the OCLC Office of Research within Section 1 of the license. This means that the license cannot be used by any author independently of the OCLC Office of Research as it would mean that the OCLC grants rights where it wouldn't have any rights in the first place. I don't think that this is an "infringement", but it seems to me to prevent adoption of the license by third parties for their own software. Of course, if this is the intention, then my statements are superfluous. :-)
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