[License-review] For Approval: Rewrite of License Zero Reciprocal Public License

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:

Analysis, modification, and generation of software are a field of endeavor
> under OSD # 6.
>

Okay, so any task counts as a "field of endeavor".  This should be
explained somewhere, as the examples in the OSDA suggest lines of business.


> OSD #2 says the *program *must include source code, so it overrides any
> provision in OSD # 6 that would prevent the program from having source code.
>

So "distributing binary without source" is a field of endeavor too, but
discrimination based on it (that is, forbidding it) is okay because #2.
This also should be explained.

 But not *other *programs. So, GPL OK, King Midas not OK.
>

No argument from me.  I just want the ­ı's dotted and the ŧ's crossed.

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They do not preach that their God will rouse them
A little before the nuts work loose.
They do not teach that His Pity allows them
to drop their job when they damn-well choose.
                --Rudyard Kipling, "The Sons of Martha"
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