[License-review] veto against Unlicense

[Henrik Ingo]

- European developer wanted to hear European lawyer's opinion on the
matter, which happened.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 1:55 AM Josh Berkus <josh at berkus.org> wrote:

> On 6/2/20 3:08 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > No, they sais they’d still recommend against it even if OSI were to
> > approve it. Quite the distinction, it’s a vote against approval in
> > my interpretation.
>
> It's not.
>
> Like, I personally recommend against using the AGPL all the time.  That
> doesn't mean that I don't think it's OSS or that OSI shouldn't have
> approved it.
>
> That said, what we have outstanding is:
>
> - Several attorneys who think the Unlicense is fine;
> - One attorney who says that the license is missing critical wording
> required to make it safe to use;
> - One developer who thinks it's fine;
> - One developer who thinks it's terrible.
>
> Am I missing anyone?
>
> Note that, at this point, we haven't had anyone with standing actually
> make a formal proposal to approve the Unlicense.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
>
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