<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m in agreement, thanks!<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 14, 2015, at 12:40 PM, Brent Turner <<a href="mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com" class="">turnerbrentm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Checking in with Lauren -<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are we all together ? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BT </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Lawrence Rosen <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com" target="_blank" class="">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">Hi Lauren,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">There is a simple distinction: The OPL is not an approved open source license; the others are. I used to be general counsel for Open Source Initiative, so I know this distinction is critical to the open source community. You can't call it open source if the license is not formally approved by OSI.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">I'm also a member of Apache Software Foundation and I love the Apache License. I believe personally, however, that a reciprocal license would be better for election software, for which I recommended GPLv3. I published an article about this that Brent can forward to you.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">Please let me know of any further questions or concerns. Open source licensing is a frequent topic in my law practice and open source election and voting software is my latest passion. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">In any event, I'd love to see questions like yours on the CAVO@ list. Please join us here:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><a href="http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cavo" target="_blank" class="">http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cavo</a> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">/Larry<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">Lawrence Rosen<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">Rosenlaw & Einschlag (<a href="http://www.rosenlaw.com/" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color:#0563c1" class="">www.rosenlaw.com</span></a>) <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">Cell: <a href="tel:707-478-8932" value="+17074788932" target="_blank" class="">707-478-8932</a> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">LinkedIn: <a href="http://lnkd.in/D9CWhD" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color:#0563c1" class="">http://lnkd.in/D9CWhD</span></a> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""> Brent Turner [mailto:<a href="mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">turnerbrentm@gmail.com</a>] <br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> Monday, May 11, 2015 6:09 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> Lawrence Rosen; David Webber; Patrick Masson; CAVO; <a href="mailto:lauren.massa.lochridge.sf@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">lauren.massa.lochridge.sf@gmail.com</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> GPL license conversation<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Hello all : <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Lauren works with LA County elections and also does IEEE standards work.. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">She would prefer this thread stay off the public site-<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">We were talking about GPL.. and she mentioned BSD and Apache.. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I told her you two would be good for that conversation.. she may be participating after next steps.. I mentioned OPL was not currently considered as open source <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Lauren.. here is <a href="http://www.opensource.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.opensource.org</a> Please intro yourself-<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Lawrence is OS atty guru.. David a tech guru.. Patrick is Prez of OSI <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Best to all-<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Brent <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div>
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