[License-review] For approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 2)

[Pamela Chestek]

On 8/22/2019 6:51 PM, VanL wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 3:42 PM Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com
> <mailto:bruce at perens.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 3:37 PM VanL <van.lindberg at gmail.com
>     <mailto:van.lindberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         I know you consider the CAL's user autonomy provisions to be a
>         field of use restriction as well, but you seem to be alone in
>         that view.
>
>
>     It's not proper for a license submitter to rule unilaterally that
>     a particular critic is alone in their view.
>
>     You need to leave that to the group to decide. Please remember
>     that you are submitting a license for this group to review.
>
>
> No disrespect intended. I was not making a value statement or final
> judgment, I was only making an observation about the comments pro and
> con that have been made so far.

For what it's worth, I agree with Bruce's view on the inappropriateness
of imposing restrictions on data in a software license. So he is not the
only one.

And I hope it's obvious that am speaking here for myself only, not for
the OSI.

Pam

Pamela S. Chestek
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