[License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.1 (C-FSL v1.1)

[Simon Phipps]

Just to update the list on the status of this review request following the
Board meeting last week. Since the discussion is still in progress, and
since there are so many comments indicating problems -- including drafting
issues and multiple conflicts with the OSD -- that have so far not been
addressed in a revised version, the Board has postponed any decision on
this license for another month.

For the avoidance of doubt, no license is OSI Approved until the Board has
stated that it is so. Submission for review does not in any way imply
pending approval.

S.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 8:58 AM Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb at elstel.org>
wrote:

> Full Name: Convertible Free Software License Version 1.1
> Short Identifier: C-FSL v1.1
> URL: https://www.elstel.org/license/C-FSL-v1.1.txt
>
> Rationale and Distinguish:
> While the BSD license allows the whole world to re-license and while
> re-licensing is virtually impossible with GPL since every contributor
> would need to consent the C-FSL license goes a practical intermediate
> way restricting the right to re-license to a group called the original
> authors. That way open source developers are not excluded from making
> business with others who want to base a proprietary product on the given
> piece of open source software.
>
> Proliferation Category & Legal Review:
> Other/Miscellaneous
> A lawyer from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency, USA) has already
> checked C-FSL for its proliferation properties. He has found the license
> to be compatible with other open source licenses. He decided that C-FSL
> can be used together with the CC0 license in the FDtool (functional
> dependency mining tool) project.
>
> list of software which uses C-FSL v1.1.:
> qcoan: https://www.elstel.org/coan
> xchroot, confinedrv, bundsteg, debcheckroot, dbschemacmd: also found at
> www.elstel.org
>

-- 
Simon Phipps*, President, The Open Source Initiative*
 www.opensource.org
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