[License-review] Mandatory meta OSI process thread

[Bruce Perens]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:34 PM Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> I assume the current requirement that you relicense your entire operating
> system and toolchain is not intentional and will disappear with a future
> revision of the license text.
>

Hi Florian,

Anyone who wishes to can participate in the license-review mailing list,
provided they maintain some minimum standard of civility and
signal-to-noise. IMO the main requirement is that you can discuss license
terms and related issues such as actual use of the license. No formal legal
education is required. So, IMO, it doesn't make sense to say that a
discussion in the context of OSI doesn't represent a particular community.

The terms in section 18 are written to as broadly as possible capture
anything even peripherally involved with the offering of a service, and are
*certainly* intentional. They just aren't written in a way that would pass
the OSD. A tighter definition might pass and offer a license that achieves
the desired goal.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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