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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>> </span>so why not define it as copyleft <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>(btw, I care about copyleft, not about GPL specifically)<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I care about copyleft also. I believe that there are advantages to copyleft software for these purposes. See attached. Nothing has changed my mind since 9/28/2016. /Larry<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 3:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@rosenlaw.com><br><b>Cc:</b> CAVO <cavo@lists.opensource.org>; Alan Dechert <dechert@gmail.com><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'>I don’t get it — why not? The constitution is declaring that the license must be "open source," so why not define it as copyleft (btw, I care about copyleft, not about GPL specifically).<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 15, 2018, at 2:51 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><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But the California Constitution shouldn't declare that the open source license MUST be copyleft.</span><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. Fox<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'>Founder/CEO<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'>Opus Logica, Inc.<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'>A: 901 Olive St., 93101<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: 76-BAFFLE-76<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'>C: 805.637.8642<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>