[License-review] For Approval: Scripting Free Software License, Version 1.3.5 (S-FSL v1.3.5)

Josh Berkus josh at postgresql.org
Wed Nov 6 23:11:34 UTC 2013


On 11/06/2013 03:01 PM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>> This is what is known as a "vanity license" and I believe prohibited
>> from certification for that reason. If what you really want is
>> shareware, then do shareware: it's a venerable and well-proven business
>> model.
> 
> No, shareware is not my intention. My intention is an open source
> license giving customers the right to read, understand the sources,
> modify and adapt them to their own needs. It should set up certain rules
> for contributions and publishing derived works. Finally it should allow
> 'fair use' acceptance to public and non public distributors which
> requires some sort of legal certainty to distributors only obtainable
> via a certification process like the OSI. They need to know how it would
> interact and what it means in detail.

You seem to have your own definition of what constitutes open source,
which is different from the OSD which OSI operates under.  I can only
judge your license on whether or not it meets the OSD, and at this point
5 people on this list have told you that it does not.

--Josh Berkus




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