OSD #6 (fields of endeavor) and research vs commercial rights

[Randall Burns]

My take on the discrimination against fields of
endeavor means that a license can't be restricted for
use in any particular industry. I don't see where the
RPL does that. Everyone that enhances or modifies RPL
code  is required to share their resulting code(if
they use it) with the world. Granted, the RPL doesn't
have the same privacy protections as the GPL--and some
organizations with privacy concerns might find the GPL
acceptable and the RPL repugnant-but I don't see how
the organizations that choose to avoid RPL code are
being discriminated against.

--- Bob Scheifler <Bob.Scheifler at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Looking at OSD #6, No Discrimination Against Fields
> of Endeavor,
> I had imagined that it meant, among other things,
> that the
> license could not have one set of terms for
> commercial use and
> a different set of terms for research use. Yet there
> appear
> to be a few approved licenses that make such a
> discrimination,
> such as the Apple Public Source License (ver 1.2),
> and the
> Reciprocal Public License (ver 1.1). Can someone
> clarify?
> Thanks.
> 
> - Bob
> 
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