<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt">For what it is worth, I am a lawyer that does work in the open source world and I have found the recent discussions, including the Rosen/Kuhn dialog, to be among the interesting and valuable discussions that I've seen on this list in a while.<br>And yes, I have been doing open source work long enough to appreciate the fact that it's not the first time that these issues have come up--the discussion still has value.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@rosenlaw.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
license-discuss@opensource.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:37 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [License-discuss] Open source license chooser choosealicense.com launched.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Hi Luis,<br><br>I refuse your request to be silent. What is more important to this list than<br>this discussion? I won't just sit here like a lump while Bradley and others<br>continue to encourage OSI to accept erroneous theories about license<br>proliferation and while various groups implement FOSS "license choosers"<br>that ignore legal analysis.<br><br>If you believe that this or any other list is overflowing, open your drain<br>wider.<br><br>/Larry<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Luis Villa [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:luis@lu.is" href="mailto:luis@lu.is">luis@lu.is</a>] <br>Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:26 AM<br>To:
License Discuss; Lawrence Rosen; Bradley M. Kuhn<br>Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Open source license chooser<br>choosealicense.com launched.<br><br>On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <<a ymailto="mailto:bkuhn@ebb.org" href="mailto:bkuhn@ebb.org">bkuhn@ebb.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> I don't think we need to (or should have) this debate (again) here<br><br>Yes, please, let's not rehash this discussion here. It's been done many<br>times, and the list is already overflowing this week.<br><br>Luis<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>License-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:License-discuss@opensource.org" href="mailto:License-discuss@opensource.org">License-discuss@opensource.org</a><br><a href="http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss" target="_blank">http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div>
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