<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Which is fine. It's their code and they can license it however they want. They just can't call it Open Source.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 21, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Brendan Hickey <<a href="mailto:brendan.m.hickey@gmail.com" class="">brendan.m.hickey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">While this may all seem hypothetical, a decade ago a developer bungled his taxes and retaliated by banning the Belgian government from using of his code.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Brendan</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 11:20 AM VanL <<a href="mailto:van.lindberg@gmail.com" class="">van.lindberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:53 AM John Cowan <<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">cowan@ccil.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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="ltr" class="">On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:21 AM VanL <<a href="mailto:van.lindberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">van.lindberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">But think about OSD #5, which prohibits discrimination against people or groups, or OSD #6, prohibiting discrimination against fields of endeavor. It is true that the PNGL would not vary the permissions granted, but it would be a clear statement of discrimination against those groups, including a declaration that they will be treated differently in the acceptance of contributions.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lots of people are already treated differently, it just flies under the radar. There are individuals I won't accept patches from...</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, but putting it in the license makes it different in a way that I think may be cognizable under the OSD. I am also uneasy about the forced speech issue, although I can't ground that in the OSD as easily.<br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks,<br class="">Van<br class=""></div></div>
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