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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>>From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-bounces@lists.opensource.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss<br>
<b>>>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 22, 2019 10:27 PM<br>
<b>>>To:</b> Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss <license-discuss@lists.opensource.org><br>
<b>>>Cc:</b> Christopher Sean Morrison <brlcad@mac.com><br>
<b>>>Subject:</b> Re: [License-discuss] comprehensiveness (or not) of the OSI-approved list<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">>>>></span>On May 22, 2019, at 11:00 PM, Lawrence Rosen <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">>>>></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">And so OSI should educate you that patents are sometimes very important, and that the
BSD license is currently not very useful in the open source environment. It is risky!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">>></span>Has this actually been tested and/or demonstrated yet anywhere? Surely with the tens of thousands of permissive-licensed codes in use in every corporate portfolio, one of them would have endured a
<span style="color:#1F497D">>></span>test by now if it were risky. Regardless, not knowing whether something is risky doesn’t make it risky, it makes it an unknown risk. Baseless fear-mongering.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">AFAIK it has not been tested in a court, but it is being tested in academic journals and in various conferences and workshops. Here is an example of this proposition
being tested in a legal academic journal: </span><a href="http://stlr.org/2018/10/15/the-truth-about-oss-frand-by-all-indications-compatible-models-in-standards-settings/">http://stlr.org/2018/10/15/the-truth-about-oss-frand-by-all-indications-compatible-models-in-standards-settings/</a>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">and here is a counter-argument:
</span><a href="http://stlr.org/2019/03/04/oss-and-frand-complementary-models-for-innovation-and-development/">http://stlr.org/2019/03/04/oss-and-frand-complementary-models-for-innovation-and-development/</a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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