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

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Mon Nov 13 20:56:43 UTC 2017


Acquiring an active user community for your proposed license is helpful
because bad ideas can be expected to die on the vine there without
acquiring a user community, and we won't have to consider them. Also,
because such a community generates practical use cases which can be cited
rather than theoretical ones. Theoretical licenses burden the folks on this
list with work that may not have any practical outcome. OSI might
practically refuse to consider licenses with no user community simply to
keep the workload for approval manageable.

I'm not saying that L0-R would be approved if it had an active user
community. It still has obvious reasons for denial in its language as
presently proposed.

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:

> If all of those concerns, extraneous to the license, are
> understand why Bruce and others have told me to shop out
> there, before bringing in here. Fora "out there" are far
> more accessible to the community, and would bring more
> eyeballs to make bugs shallow. But I wonder, having debated,
> refined, and achieved a measure of acceptance out there, why
> I'd then bring it here, if the analysis is much the same.
>
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