[License-review] For approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4)

[Pamela Chestek]

What?? What on earth are you talking about? No one has ever suggested to
me, nor have I suggested to anyone, that the opinions of anyone are not
to be considered.

Pam

Pamela Chestek
Chair, License Review Committee
Open Source Initiative

On 1/1/2020 11:52 PM, Bruce Perens via License-review wrote:
> Don't waste your time, Bradley. They were told not to listen to you,
> either. 
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 6:29 PM Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at ebb.org
> <mailto:bkuhn at ebb.org>> wrote:
>
>     I can't find an example when OSI approved a novel copyleft license
>     that
>     hadn't yet been used in practice and therefore had no track record
>     of use
>     for any FOSS project.  It was once somewhat common for OSI to approve
>     licenses that were used by only one entity, and most of those
>     licenses were
>     never used beyond the one project, and even most of those entities
>     have
>     deprecated those by now.  (OSI also made a decision to cease
>     considering
>     such single-use licenses.)  Rapid acceptance of a novel licenses,
>     so far
>     unused in practice, causes confusion in the FOSS community.
>
>     Folks have shouted down Bruce as he wonders how Van's license will
>     be used
>     in practice.  I think Bruce has made a useful point on this
>     thread: as a
>     general matter, it's relevant that we consider how the license impacts
>     users' *and* software publishers' software freedoms in *practice*, not
>     merely *in theory*.
>
>     In that regard, I'd like to know if the project that plans to use this
>     license will be inbound=outbound (i.e., is the entity that's
>     promulgating
>     this new license willing to bound themselves by the license
>     terms)?  Van,
>     could you tell us, on behalf of your client (who appears to be the
>     only
>     potential licensor interested in this license), what their
>     contribution
>     plans are regarding this license?  Are they planning to accept
>     contributions
>     under this license, and thus be bound by it for their FOSS projects?
>     If not, why not?
>     -- 
>
>     Bradley M. Kuhn - he/him
>
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>     https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
>
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