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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> Jasper Horn <jasperhorn@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 16, 2020 5:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> mccoy@lexpan.law; 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><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>ESD Fragment for context:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>> 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<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>McCoy Smith:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>> “Voluntary” modifies “support” not “remuneration” or “financial consideration”<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Consider the phrase "cola, guabo, mountain dew, or other fizzy drinks".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Now, you do not know what "guabo" is (because I just made it up), but you do know it must be a fizzy drink. The "other" signifies that the following classifier is the one that the previous items fall under.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>(This is not an opinion about the ESD, but a statement about language.)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Remuneration”: 1: something that remunerates : RECOMPENSE, PAY <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remuneration">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remuneration</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Consideration”: 6a: RECOMPENSE, PAYMENT <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consideration">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consideration</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Neither word admits of voluntarism. And thank goodness for that, for those of use who receive remuneration from our employers for the work we perform.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Or to put it another way:<br>Consider the phrase “water, apple juice or other alcoholic beverages”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phrasing it way doesn’t turn water into wine. That requires divine intervention. Allegedly.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>