[License-review] Approval,YOS
Pamela Chestek
pamela at chesteklegal.com
Wed Feb 24 14:32:29 UTC 2021
Speaking in my personal capacity, not in my relationship with OSI.
It appears that the section titled "Program Publisher Specification" is
a mandatory requirement to track users (sec. 13) and to make available a
public database of who those users are (sec 14). This is strongly
inconsistent with open source principles.
Section 16 allows revocation of the license granted to derivative works.
This also is a grave offense to open source principles.
This license should not be approved.
Pam
Pamela S. Chestek
Chestek Legal
PO Box 2492
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pamela at chesteklegal.com
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On 2/21/2021 7:38 AM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> This license is not likely to be approved, since it requires
> publishers to provide contact information and for users to be able to
> contact the publisher to obtain 'authorization codes'. This fails the
> Debian 'desert island test' (https://wiki.debian.org/DesertIslandTest
> <https://wiki.debian.org/DesertIslandTest>), and presumably is a
> blocker for OSI approval as well.
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:22 AM Forever☆七夜草° <yateam at foxmail.com
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