[License-review] Consensus on L0-R

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:


> > Either the RPL passes the OSD or the folks on the board at the time
> thought
> > that it did. This does not, however, give any reason that LR-0 should
> also
> > pass the OSD.
>
> It demonstrates that OSD#6 is not a blanket prohibition on
> use restrictions.  RPL contains an explicit use-based
> restriction.  It was approved.
>

I believe that RPL's certification was wrongly decided, although it is
probably
too late to reverse it now.  I remember thinking at the time that the
license
was very hard to understand (I don't find it so now, particularly), but
that it
meant well and we probably should approve it despite its opacity.  I wish
now that I'd made more fuss then.


> > You missed 1201, and if I took more than a minute I could probably find
> > more.
>
> That's DMCA, not core Copyright Act.


"The law of the land is the law."

> Your license is not Open Source.
>
> You will not be able to convince anyone that it's Open Source with
> language
> > implementing a use restriction. No amount of argument will change that.
>
> I read and understand that you believe open source licenses
> cannot impose any use restrictions whatsoever
>

I don't think you'll find anyone other than yourself (and the long-ago
authors of the RPL) who believe otherwise.


> You're promoting a rule for software licenses that objective
> readings of OSD against the approved license list don't
> require.  The rules that do follow, plus the rule you
> propose, is "permissive open source", a subspecies.
>

The GPL is obviously reciprocal and imposes no use restriction.
If it did, it would contradict Freedom 0 from the same organization.

-- 
John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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those who can count, and those who can't.
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