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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please don't misinterpret. Some open source licenses are copyleft, others aren't. In both cases, however, the "complete source code" to the open source software must be provided. /Larry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>From:</b> Brian J. Fox [mailto:bfox@opuslogica.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 15, 2018 10:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@rosenlaw.com>; CAVO <cavo@lists.opensource.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [CAVO] Definition of "open source software"<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>"or other consideration" means that they don’t have to make their changes to the software open source as well. That’s a fail in my book.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Jan 13, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Lawrence Rosen <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Colleagues:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The following definition is being proposed for the California Constitution in a voter initiative to fund the development of open source election software in this state:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:.5in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2129'>“Open source software” means software actually distributed to the public under software licenses that provide that every licensee is free to make copies of the software or derivative works thereof, to distribute them without payment of royalties or other consideration, and to access and use the complete source code of the software.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Comments?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>/Larry</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lawrence Rosen</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Rosenlaw (</span><a href="http://www.rosenlaw.com/"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#954F72'>www.rosenlaw.com</span></a><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>)<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Cell: 707-478-8932<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>This email is licensed under<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#954F72'>CC-BY-4.0</span></a><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>. Please copy freely.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><image001.png></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>_______________________________________________<br>CAVO mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:CAVO@lists.opensource.org"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#954F72'>CAVO@lists.opensource.org</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br></span><a href="http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/cavo_lists.opensource.org"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#954F72'>http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/cavo_lists.opensource.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Thanks,</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Brian<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Brian J. 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