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

Elmar Stellnberger estellnb at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 09:05:48 UTC 2013


   I understand that most open source developers think of 'open source' 
as something that is clearly settled 'outside of copyright law'. i.e. 
they will be able to do anything with the sources without even having to 
ask. However please note that this is not enforced by the OSI OSD 
criteria and I doubt it is in the sense of OSI. Such a kind of 
understanding would prevent business OSS licenses, i.e. to effectively 
earn money with programming which I think of just as deplorable.

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 09:24:31PM +0000, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:

> > What is your business model about writing GPL software?
> > How do you earn money with it?

> I don't have a business model or earn (much) money with it.
>
> - Craig
 > --



Am 10.11.2013 18:04, schrieb Paul Tagliamonte:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 05:07:00PM +0000, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>> Am 08.11.2013 16:33, schrieb Paul Tagliamonte:
>>> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 04:15:30PM +0000, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>>>>>> "specific to someone": Well this is an unavoidable necessity in order to
>>>>> Maybe, but specific clauses like this clearly violate OSD #3 and #5
>>>>> (#3: if your downstream “A” is a “public distribution” and A’s
>>>>> downstream “B” isn’t, B cannot distribute them under the same terms
>>>>> as it got them from A under).
>>>> Well we could crop out this special facilitation but that would make
>>>> the license less fit for practical purposes. I do not want to sacrifice
>>>> practical fitness towards perfectly strict OSI compliance.
>>> To be clear, not satisfying OSD 3 & 5 (DFSG 3 and 5 as well) this will
>>> *NOT* be fit for Debian main. You're free to try to get it into
>>> non-free.
>> Concerning OSD conformance please see for the discussion at http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-November/001358.html.
> Debian doesn't use OSI conformance as it's measure for free software. We
> have our own tests (the DFSG), and a team to work out if a license is
> free (the ftpteam).
>
> Last I checked, your license will still not be fit for Debian main.
>
> Cheers!
>    Paul
>




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