[License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

2015-05-26 Thread Lawrence Rosen
OSI is now hosting the open source California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO). Thanks OSI! There was a question on that email list recently about why CAVO prefers GPLv3 for voting software. I had recommended GPLv3 to CAVO several months earlier. Below was my response. The local

Re: [License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

2015-05-26 Thread Grahame Grieve
ALL OSI-approved licenses are open source. Other licenses are not I don't think that the last bit is right. other licenses cannot be known to be or other licenses may not be - but you can't outright claim that just because OSI has not approved a license, it's *not* open source Grahame On Wed,

Re: [License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

2015-05-26 Thread John Cowan
Grahame Grieve scripsit: other licenses cannot be known to be or other licenses may not be - but you can't outright claim that just because OSI has not approved a license, it's *not* open source +1 -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowanco...@ccil.org Not to perambulate

Re: [License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

2015-05-26 Thread Allison Randal
On 05/26/2015 02:44 PM, Grahame Grieve wrote: ALL OSI-approved licenses are open source. Other licenses are not I don't think that the last bit is right. other licenses cannot be known to be or other licenses may not be - but you can't outright claim that just because OSI has not approved