<div dir="ltr">This feels like a violation of criteria 5 of the OSD: The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.<div><br></div><div>By restricting use to contributors of open-source works, you're actively discriminating against a group of people (people who are either unable or unwilling to contribute to open source).</div><div><br></div><div>There is also the point that "in some way" is painfully vague and trivial to circumvent, but even if you added a lengthy treatise on what constitutes a contribution to any open-source work, I think you'd still run back into criteria 5.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 8:46 AM Simon Fridlund <simon@fridlund.email> 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 dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Hey all,</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I'm looking for some feedback on a potential license I've been thinking about for the last few years. I've done some searching and I haven't found any open-source license that requires consumers of the software/source to contribute to any open-source project in some way.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I've started out with a modified version of the ISC license and it is as follows.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">```</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"segoe ui",helvetica,arial,sans-serif,"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji";font-size:16px">Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies and that users of this software contribute to any open-source work in some way.<br></span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">... rest of ISC license ...</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">```</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">What do you think about a license like this and is the language in the changes even close to ok for a license?</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Any feedback is appreciated.</span><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Here's a link to the license repo I've setup.</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://github.com/zimme/open-source-contribution-license" target="_blank">https://github.com/zimme/open-source-contribution-license</a></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Thanks in advance,</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Simon Fridlund</span></div></div>
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