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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Tobie Langel <tobie@unlockopen.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 20, 2020 4:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> mccoy@lexpan.law<br><b>Cc:</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></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.5pt'>Remember that the argument I’m making here is precisely that if the OSI’s point of view matches the one you’re articulating here, the OSD needs tightening. The fact that you had to reference the four freedoms and and fsf blog post to argue your point really made mine. ;)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well, you know, there was a candidate for the recent OSI Board election who ran on this very platform: <a href="https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/Board+Member+Elections/2020+Individual+and+Affiliate+Elections/Smith2020">https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/Board+Member+Elections/2020+Individual+and+Affiliate+Elections/Smith2020</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That candidate having come in 4<sup>th</sup> (or 5<sup>th</sup>, by some people’s math), I’m not sure that’s something there’s enough of a mandate to demand that it happen.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>