[License-review] CC0 incompliant with OSD on patents, [was: MXM compared to CC0 ]

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Tue Mar 6 17:18:33 UTC 2012


On 03/06/2012 07:24 AM, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote:
> If the OSI is dumb enough to deprecate the BSD license I'll go ahead and deprecate the OSI as having lost touch with the community and I don't think I'll be alone in doing so.
I don't think there is the slightest danger of this happening. The only 
person suggesting this has some sort of bee in his bonnet regarding me 
personally. However, I do think that OSI should be more cognizant of 
patent issues in the approval process going forward.
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