<div dir="ltr">well, there might be a scope issue here. <div><br></div><div>"for a particular purpose, non OSI approved licenses are not considered open source'</div><div><br></div><div>But perhaps that's implicit in the context and only confusing for me because you quoted a piece out of context - that's what Brian implies. </div><div><br></div><div>Grahame</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Lawrence Rosen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com" target="_blank">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you Allison and Grahame, I'll have to be more precise next time. You<br>
can help me. What would you suggest we say when the OSET Foundation proposes<br>
a voting or election system with a non-OSI-approved "open source license"<br>
called OPL:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/528d46a2e4b059766439fa8b/t/53558db1e4b
0191d0dc6912c/1398115761233/OPL_FAQ_Apr14.pdf" target="_blank">http://static1.squarespace.com/static/528d46a2e4b059766439fa8b/t/53558db1e4b<br>
0191d0dc6912c/1398115761233/OPL_FAQ_Apr14.pdf</a>.<br>
<br>
Should OSI say more than "not approved"?<br>
<br>
/Larry<br>
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Subject: Re: [CAVO] [License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft<br>
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On 05/26/2015 02:44 PM, Grahame Grieve wrote:<br>
> "ALL OSI-approved licenses are open source. Other licenses are not"<br>
><br>
> I don't think that the last bit is right.<br>
><br>
> "other licenses cannot be known to be" or "other licenses may not be"<br>
> - but you can't outright claim that just because OSI has not approved<br>
> a license, it's *not* open source<br>
<br>
Yes, good clarification. That's certainly not what we meant to imply.<br>
Mainly we were focused on the fact that the set of open source licenses<br>
includes more than just the GPL.<br>
<br>
Allison<br>
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