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

[Lawrence Rosen]

Thank you Allison and Grahame, I'll have to be more precise next time. You
can help me. What would you suggest we say when the OSET Foundation proposes
a voting or election system with a non-OSI-approved "open source license"
called OPL: 

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/528d46a2e4b059766439fa8b/t/53558db1e4b
0191d0dc6912c/1398115761233/OPL_FAQ_Apr14.pdf. 

Should OSI say more than "not approved"?

/Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: Allison Randal [mailto:allison at opensource.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:44 PM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org; Lawrence Rosen
Cc: CAVO
Subject: Re: [CAVO] [License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

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 
> a license, it's *not* open source

Yes, good clarification. That's certainly not what we meant to imply.
Mainly we were focused on the fact that the set of open source licenses
includes more than just the GPL.

Allison
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