[License-review] OSD #9 would not make SSPL OSD-incompliant

[Bruce Perens]

The title of each definition is a summary necessarily limited by its
length. The definition is the meat, and unfortunately I did not write it in
a way that would apply to software that is not distributed.

I'm very sorry.

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:24 PM Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com> wrote:

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> *Subject:* [License-review] OSD #9 would not make SSPL OSD-incompliant
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> Folks,
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> The OSD terms were not written for software-as-a-service. OSD #9 very
> clearly states
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> The license must not place restrictions on other software that is
> *distributed* along with the licensed software. For example, the license
> must not insist that all other programs *distributed on the same medium*
> must be open-source software.
>
> Since software-as-a-service software is not distributed, OSD #9 doesn't
> apply. Sorry. The document was written for another time and I could not
> predict today's conditions.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Bruce
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> Isn’t this OSD 9:  “License Must Not Restrict Other Software”?
>
> The part you quote seems to be explanatory of the definition, but not
> necessarily limiting.  I’ve been drafting a mail to license-discuss on OSD
> 9 and how I think it ought to be interpreted, but this seems to be an
> important question: what is the **D* *part of the OSD.
>
> It also seems curious to me that you can put **more** restrictions on
> software on non-distributed media than you can on distributed media, but
> perhaps there is some history of that part of the OSD that I’m unaware of.
> To me, the example text you have reproduced is written that way because it
> inherently assumes Freedom Zero.
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