License for approval
Allison shi
allison_shi at sursen.com
Tue Apr 1 01:54:16 UTC 2008
We will check into SISSL for reference. Thanks. -Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Phipps <webmink at gmail.com>
To: Brian Behlendorf <brian at hyperreal.org>
Cc: license-review at opensource.org
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:48:34 +0000
Subject: Re: License for approval
On Mar 28, 2008, at 04:33, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Russ Nelson wrote:
>> Now, what you *can* do is say this:
>>
>> If the OASIS committee has determined that your modified software
>> complies with the UOML standard, then you are free to distribute
>> your software under $ACADEMIC license terms. If we decide you
>> haven't, then you have to distribute your software under the
>> $RECIPROCAL license terms.
>
> Isn't that what the SISSL tried to do?
Yes, that was exactly the mechanism used by SISSL[1], which is still
an OSI approved license although deprecated for current use by its
author and o longer in use for any major project[2]. If Ms Shi wants
to mandate a standard in this way, SISSL is probably an ideal license
to use.
S.
[1] http://opensource.org/licenses/sisslpl.php
[2] It was originally used as one of the two licenses for OpenOffice.org
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