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

Elmar Stellnberger estellnb at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 12:20:29 UTC 2013


Am 06.11.2013 23:11, schrieb Josh Berkus:
> 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

You can not simply claim non-conformance with the Open Source Definition 
from the Open Source Initiative just because you do not like the 
license. You will have to give detailed arguments. The license has been 
clearly evaluated against these criteria before being published. If your 
understanding of open source goes ahead from this criteria then it is 
your own worry.

Elmar Stellnberger

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