Change ot topic, back to OVPL

Wilson, Andrew andrew.wilson at intel.com
Wed Aug 24 20:32:40 UTC 2005


 
Alex Bligh wrote: 

> Besides, if you want to pick on unenforceable poorly drafted licenses,
> there are rather a lot of currently approved licenses which are surely
> better targets than the OVPL (in some cases the license authors have
> admitted as much).

Surely, if there are questions about the enforceability of the
one and only provision that really differentiates OVPL from CDDL,
it's fair to suggest those questions should be at least considered when
OSI makes a decision?

Brian, the mandatory license back in OVPL ("all your base are belong
to us") is section 3.3.  Under 3.3,
the ID can actually write a letter demanding that you cough up all
Modifications you've made to the base code.
You might want to take a look:
http://openvendor.org/Licenses/Open_Vendor_Public_License

Andy Wilson
Intel Open Source Technology Center



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