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

[Bruce Perens]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 9:26 AM Howard Chu <hyc at openldap.org> wrote:

> Setting a configuration parameter of a piece of software is not modifying
> that software.


This is probably moot for the naive user, as they don't actually compile
the software. However, consider that they are a little less naive and more
into tweaking, and they use the Gentoo Linux distribution. This is a
source-only distribution which compiles every package at installation time.
It implements compiler optimizations for your particular platform. Some of
these are preprocessor switches which determine what files are included at
compile time, and thus significantly change the text of the compiled
program. For example, your particular architecture may come with inline
assembler code for some functions.

So, we could make a case that this is actually modification of the program.

That said, I am finding that our constant little diversions into "but the
AGPL does this" are really a distraction from the CAL license evaluation
rather than contributing to the discussion. What if approving AGPL was
actually a mistake? I am not saying it was, but OSI does not insist on
following its previous mistakes when evaluating new submissions.
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