[License-discuss] Thoughts on the subject of ethical licenses

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Russell Nelson (nelson at crynwr.com):

> On 3/11/20 8:10 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >didn't ever really discuss the merits of ethical clauses (or lack thereof).
> 
> Yes, I did. Went through all of them one by one, showing that they
> were not compatible with the OSD, and analyzed the idea of putting
> restrictions on the USE of software versus the DISTRIBUTION of
> software. No response from Coraline. Why not? Because the ESD's very
> *goal* is contrary to the goal of the OSD.

I had a similar experience (went through, on license-discuss, some
clauses of the ESD explicitly, examining those from an OSI perspective
in contrast to OSD), and reached a similar conclusion.  Direct link, for
those who missed that:
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-March/021452.html

Ms. Ehmke sent her goodbye posting, about twenty hours later the same
day, without any response to my critique, or yours, or a number of
others'.  I'm not rushing, here, to any conclusions (let alone
uncharitable ones) as to the reason why:  I merely note the sequence of
events.

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