[CAVO] Compatibility of OSET and GPLv3 licenses

[Brent Turner]

OSI has approved the OSET license as OSET has met the bare minimum standard
for the OSI approval--   This is the legacy of attorney Meeks ability to "
Curve Ball " OSI into approval...  but smacks of enough trickery to leave
OSET vulnerable to generous community  critique.    sad news but oh well..

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:

> CAVO folks:
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> I reread this in the Rationale Document for the OSET Public License [1].
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> Multi-Licensing:  In addition to our license, the software may
> alternatively be licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
> version 3.0 or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0.
> This is consistent with the compatibility clauses of MPL 2.0. However, once
> a licensee uses the software under either of these alternatives, and
> contributes changes to the code, these downstream changes cannot be
> re-introduced into our code base without the permission of the contributor.
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> I read this as authorizing CAVO to incorporate any OSET code and to
> distribute it (and modify it!) under the GPLv3 license.
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> And now that they've made certain changes so that the OSET license is more
> compatible with MPLv2, I'm not worried about open source compatibility.
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> It may be irrelevant to be concerned about their license.
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> /Larry
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> [1] http://www.osetfoundation.org/public-license/
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