For Approval 36 Open Software License Request

[Bruce Perens]

It doesn't seem you have made use of an attorney. In order to protect 
your own interest, I very highly recommend that you do so, because I 
don't believe that the text as submitted would protect you or act as you 
expect. For your own protection, one of the currently-approved licenses 
would be more likely to work.

Can you explain what currently-approved licenses you considered, why you 
didn't use them, and what your license does that those licenses do not? 
There are lots of OSI-approved licenses that provide for 
source-distributed libraries in a larger, potentially proprietary, 
application.

Notes.txt seems to be an immutable section. Why should OSI approve such 
a thing?

All of the files in the directory called LICENSES must be reproduced 
without modification, even if they are
not licenses. They might be actual source code. This seems to be a fault 
in the license design.

The text says "Therefore no actions can be taken against Us if something 
goes wrong with This Application."
We all wish it was this easy to inoculate ourselves against lawsuits, 
but it isn't so.

    Thanks

    Bruce

Renzo Verleysen wrote:
> Sir/Mrs,
>
> I would like to get a license approved which I will be using in the 
> Open Source distribution of a currently proprietary library of me, for 
> which I found no valid approved Open Source License.
> The point of this license is to mix opensource with proprietary code 
> in a project, so to have eg. a proprietary front end but also use a 
> library which has to be distributed and redistributed with source.
> As a surplus people must respect the underlying licenses gathered in a 
> specific directory of the distribution and must redistribute some 
> files with the distribution of the code.
>
> The full license can be found at : 
> http://36ic.phoenxsoftware.com/36OSL.txt
>
> 36OSL could be seen as a license that is redundant with more popular 
> licenses or could also be placed in the miscellaneous category.
>
> I hope for approval and if you decide to decline my request could you 
> also give specifications for eventual changes?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Renzo Verleysen