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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>From:</b> License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces@lists.opensource.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Coraline Ada Ehmke<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 15, 2020 5:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> license-discuss@lists.opensource.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower authors outside license agreements?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Mar 15, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Brendan Hickey <<a href="mailto:brendan.m.hickey@gmail.com">brendan.m.hickey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>"<span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>It encourages fair compensation. The software project’s maintainers may, at their discretion, request remuneration in the form of code contributions, financial consideration, or other forms of voluntary support from organizations that derive commercial value from the software.”</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>So asking for voluntary donations or code contributions is verboten? What about all those projects signed up with Tidelift and OpenCollective, are they not open source anymore?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>“Voluntary” modifies “support” not “remuneration” or “financial consideration”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And “shall not” in OSD 1 is the opposite of “may” in ESD 7.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Or to simply matters, a license that says “Exercise of the license rights is conditioned upon You paying me fair compensation” would satisfy ESD 7 but violate both OSD 1 and the FSD 2 & 3 (“<span style='color:#222222;background:white'>Freedom to distribute (freedoms 2 and 3) means you are free to redistribute copies, either with or without modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, to </span><a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#exportcontrol"><span style='color:#100070;background:white'>anyone anywhere</span></a><span style='color:#222222;background:white'>. Being free to do these things means (among other things) that you do not have to ask or *<b>pay for permission to do so.</b>*</span>”)<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>