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

[Smith, McCoy]

>>I'm not exactly sure I understand the OSD 6 concern, especially to the extent rephrasing alone can avoid it.

This was the concern with your time-limited termination provision, which applied to non-open source but not open source.  Again, I think this could be drafted to eliminate the OSD 6 issue.

>>That leaves OSD 9.  GPL "work based on the Program" is clearly within bounds.  Could you give an example of a use out of OSD 9 bounds?

OSD 9 gives an example:  "For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software."  I'll give you two others which I think would violate OSD 9:

1. The license must not insist that all programs executing on the same device must be open-source software.
2. The license must not attempt to dictate the license of software when that software does not exercise of any of the rights licensed by the open source license.

[as to example 2, the authors of *GPL have been very careful to outline that those licenses only apply to software that requires an exercise of the derivative or collective work rights licensed under *GPL].