Is the "Guile" license OSI approved?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:16:43PM -0500, John Cowan (cowan at mercury.ccil.org) wrote:
> Karsten M. Self scripsit:
> 
> > > FSF may never seek OSI approval for its licenses (the source needs no
> > > approval from the derivative), but implicitly any GNU software license
> > > is Open Source... 
> > 
> > Wrong.
> 
> What license could possibly be a free software license (as defined by
> FSF) without also being an open source license (as defined by OSI)?
> It may not be OSI *certified*, but that's a different thing.

Public domain, for starters.  It's not a license, but meets the FSF's
definition of free software.  That's avoiding the legal question of
whether a work can be granted to the public domain.

My point was broader:  it's not sufficient to consider the source.  FSF
is a special case in that of the very few people on the planet whose
integrity I trust, Stallman is on the list.

I would still advise the OSI not to give blanche approval to any license
created by the FSF.  I suspect that, given a recently publicized essay
by Kuhn and Stalman, this opportunity won't be arising frequently, if at
all -- at least not in the sense of a novel license.   GPLv3 *will*
eventually be on us, and it's likely to have some interestinging
modifications from GPLv2.  Largely consistent, but subtle, requiring
close consideration.

Peace.

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