<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Of course that isn't my opinion. Only reciprocal licenses that purport to restrict linking. Larry </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my phone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: VanL <van.lindberg@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 7/8/19 1:48 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@rosenlaw.com>, license-discuss@lists.opensource.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Copyright on APIs </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Larry,</div><div><br></div><div>Just making sure I understand:<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:22 PM Lawrence Rosen <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_792123903068090782WordSection1"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:windowtext"></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:windowtext">I again plead with OSI, regardless of what the Supreme Court does with the Oracle v. Google case, that OSI never again approve an open source license* that purports to impede in any way by copyright infringement the freedom to copy and use any functional API in any open source software. This should be OUR requirement for software freedom. You should educate the public that this is OUR goal for open source....<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:windowtext"><u></u> ...<u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:windowtext">* Like the GPL and the AGPL!</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So your view is that the OSI should never approve an additional reciprocal license? Under any circumstance?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Van<br></div><div> <br></div></div></div>
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