For Approval: Open Source Software Alliance License

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Sun Sep 28 04:56:15 UTC 2003


Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit:

> Is that a distinction without a difference?  Or should we assert that
> licenses of the form "don't use that license" are contrary to the OSD
> because they discriminate?

I think that it is a distinction without a difference.  You could as well
say that the GPL discriminates against people who write proprietary
software by denying them the right to use valuable GPLed modules in their
products.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan at reutershealth.com  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Does anybody want any flotsam? / I've gotsam.
Does anybody want any jetsam? / I can getsam.
        --Ogden Nash, _No Doctors Today, Thank You_
--
license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3



More information about the License-discuss mailing list