[License-review] Request for Approval of Universal Permissive License (UPL)

[John Cowan]

Chris DiBona scripsit:

> Stab you? Seriously? How dare you use that kind of violent imagery
> here when Oracle has sued half a dozen companies for daring to use
> "open source" java. ylYou're pretending to be all friendly now?

It wasn't the violent imagery, it was the personal reference that
surprised me.  However, it seemed likely that it was some kind of
playful reference to some shared history between the two of you.
Evidently not (or else you're trolling us, which seems unlikely).

> What a joke. Its clear to me that UPL can't be trusted because oracle
> wrote it.

And yet OSI approved two Microsoft licenses.  I had a little bit to do
with that, and I defended myself on both Groklaw and Reddit by saying
that a license-writer's motives are irrelevant: what counts is the work.

> If OSI approves it we'll need to acknowledge that it has finally and
> conclusively lost it's way in a time when it was honestly on the
> ascent. OSI should not abandon its credibility and even continue this
> conversation with what is no better than a schoolyard bully.

Eh, we've heard this song before.  Negotiations never hurt anyone's
credibility where it matters.  "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at
least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part that cooks with lard and goose
fat, the part that cooks with olive oil, and the part that cooks with butter.
  --David Chessler