For Approval By: S-GPL
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Thu May 28 18:25:32 UTC 2009
Joel Sherrill writes:
> This violates criteria number 5.
>
> 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
>
> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
Well, but we've held that a license *can* discriminate as long as all
the possible paths through the license terminate in acceptable terms
under the OSD. The reason for #5 is to stop people who want to say
"It's free for everyone but commercial users" or "You can't use this
software to create nuclear weapons."
> Ignoring that, you will have definition problems
> on non-profit, enterprise, and "contribution".
Sure, those are just definitional problems. We can work with zhihang
to fix those.
> As a project maintainer, I wouldn't want to be put in a position
> to arbitrate or track the requirements this license would
> require for me to properly administer it.
Then you probably wouldn't use it.
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