<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:08 AM Eric S. Raymond <<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com" target="_blank">esr@thyrsus.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The analogy [with UL] is exact. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not quite. If we found out that the license did not meet the OSD's requirements, it would indeed be our duty to decertify it. However, goals like "minimize license proliferation" are less clear-cut. Saying that a license should not have been certified because it is redundant to some other license does not entail that it should be decertified now. </div><div><br></div><div>This is not quite stare decisis, which is the rule that (where possible) similar cases should be decided similarly: it is a matter of not disturbing existing relationships. There are now many forges and archives that accept code under any OSI-certified license. They should not have to purge code under a decertified license without very good cause indeed.</div><div><br></div><div>(another email)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">denying the use of open-source code</blockquote><div> </div><div>As this discussion has repeatedly noted, the use of the code is not *denied*. It is simply made more embarrassing. The issues are with the effects on third parties.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion<br>
-- George Washington & John Adams, in a diplomatic message to Malta.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>An ambassador is an honest man who is sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. --Henry Wotton</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan" target="_blank">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org" target="_blank">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>"The serene chaos that is Courage, and the phenomenon of Unopened<br>Consciousness have been known to the Great World eons longer than Extaboulism."<br>"Why is that?" the woman inquired.<br>"Because I just made that word up", the Master said wisely.<br> --Kehlog Albran, The Profit<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>