OSD#5 needs a patch?

Bruce Dodson bruce_dodson at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 7 03:18:58 UTC 2003


OSD#5 The license must not discriminate against any person
or group of persons.

Does that need to be expanded to state explicitly that this
does not just apply to the license terms?  i.e. Should it
say in addition that the license text itself must not
contain any discriminatory or derogatory statements against
any person or group?

Example: Take the BSD license and add to it the following:

<ethnic group> ARE PROBABLY NOT SMART ENOUGH OR SOBER ENOUGH
TO USE THIS SOFTWARE, BUT THEY ARE PERMITTED TO TRY, JUST
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.  AFTER ALL, WE WOULD NOT WANT TO
DISCRIMINATE.


(This comes to mind upon thinking about the DISCUSSION
section included in the proposed OSSAL license.)
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