[CAVO] Link to SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

[Patrick Masson]

Brent,

I was looking over the document you referenced and had a few
questions/concerns.

Page one provides definitions including, "Open source: A term signifying
the source code would be publicly available." This is an incomplete
definition. It would be better to simply state, "Open source software; A
term used to describe software caring and OSI Approved Open Source
License." This definition would ensure that all of the attributes of the
Open Source Definition, not just access to the code, are included in the
definition.  

Page eight states, "Open source software is classified as a GPL; hence
all improved versions of the original software must remain free,
disallowing proprietary companies to adopt the software, make changes,
and sell it on their own terms." This is not accurate. Open source
software is software distributed with an OSI Approved Open Source
License, and includes permissive licenses. Narrowly defining open source
as only software caring a GPL or copyleft license does not reflect the
open source software movement.

Is there an opportunity to provide feedback? If so would you/CAVO be
able to introduce these? The OSI is constantly challenged with the
misuse of the term open source software and we strive to ensure that
only software caring an OSI approved license uses the label. We see a
lot of open washing and fauxpen source out there. While this is
obviously not the case here, and it's clear folks are genuinely
interested in working with authentic open source projects, it would be
best to ensure constancy to avoid misunderstandings.

Thanks,
Patrick



On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 16:58 -0700, Brent Turner wrote:
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