[License-discuss] January 2020 License-Discuss Summary

[Travin Keith]

Hi all,

License-Discuss mailing list topics for January 2020:

- Dual Licensing
- Copyright on APIs
- Decision process regarding license review submissions
- AGPL evaluation and real-world license testing
- ZFS Kernel Code on Linux


*Dual Licensing *
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021191.html

Centralizing copyright licensing and not centralizing copyrights themselves
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021192.html

Single entity open source business model
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021204.html


*Copyright on APIs*
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021193.html

Doubt on article assumptions due to machine-readable interface description
in the source code
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021194.html



*Decision process regarding license review submissions*
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021195.html

Suggestion to postpone OSI evaluation of new licenses until after some time
of practical use
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021199.html

The role of the OSI and defining norms
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021201.html

Writing down all rules would be divisive and further enable bad actors
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021207.html

Postponing evaluation means ignoring and that the current OSI certification
process is fine and shouldn’t be changed because of one license being
reviewed. Introduce retiring licenses or have a category of "open source
but not recommended."
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021203.html

It is undesirable to have the OSI determine which licenses are better than
others
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021208.html

Concern with interim naming of a license while it is in use but before OSI
evaluation
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021212.html



*AGPL evaluation and real-world license testing*
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021197.html

Copyleft-next is engaging in a public drafting process
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021198.html



*ZFS Kernel Code on Linux*
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021215.html
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