[License-discuss] OSI definition

[McCoy Smith]

A "Big Corporation" and a "Giant Corporation" are both groups. The licenses
disadvantage both by not granting them a license.
So yes, fails OSD.

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> From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On
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> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2021 4:06 PM
> To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> Subject: [License-discuss] OSI definition
> 
> The Open Source Definition (Annotated) is located on the internet at
> https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
> 
> Section 5, 'No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups' states, 'The
license
> must not discriminate against any person or group of persons'. The
Rationale
> concludes: '[...] we forbid any open-source license from locking anybody
out
> of the process'...
> 
> Section 6, 'No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor' states, 'The
license
> must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific
field of
> endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in
a
> business, or from being used for genetic research'. The Rationale
suggests:
> 'The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that
prevent
> open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to
> join our community, not feel excluded from it.'
> 
> Leftcopy (https://leftcopy.org) is a very simple, permissive licensing
program
> based on MIT/Expat and 2-Clause BSD. It features one added restriction
that
> only applies to legal entities having shareholders entitled to receive
dividends
> from profits and employing more people than the license allows. Leftcopy
> does not restrict individual employees, groups of employees, individual
> shareholders, or groups of shareholders, individual company officers, or
> groups of company officers or any customers from using the work, even
> commercially. It does not lock any human beings 'out of the process', (so
to
> speak). Leftcopy does not appear to directly or indirectly disadvantage
any
> person or group of persons or discriminate against any field of endeavor.
Are
> there any objections to this interpretation?
> 
> 
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