<div><div>On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 02:11 Russell Nelson <<a href="mailto:nelson@crynwr.com" target="_blank">nelson@crynwr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>The fact that "ethical" software has no
place at OSI? Well, it doesn't. If it did, then she would have been
elected.</div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div><div dir="auto">With all due respect, I really feel like this is the wrong framing. If the OSI wants to be representative of the open source community—which it must if it wants to be legitimate—it can’t just ignore a concern that’s become mainstream* among open source practitioners. Note I’m not saying: “change the OSD to allow ethical licenses,” I’m saying “work hand in hand to account for the concerns of the broader community to find reasonable solutions that meet those concerns.”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">—tobie</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">—-</div><div dir="auto">* For scale, the twitter poll I ran earlier this year from my personal account had more respondents in favor of a Hippocratic-like license than there are OSI members (and roughly twice as more than OSI members that voted). </div>
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