<div dir="ltr">We have excellent relationships with government purchasers nationally and internationally. I have never heard this from any of them, and have asked previous to see this " list ". <div><br></div><div>GPL v3 has advantages the special new extra license likely does not have imo </div><div><br></div><div>I am always curious about purveyors within the election system space, so please pardon any perceived irritated tone. We would obviously rather see Mr. Kapor's money and power utilized to create air tight systems.. rather than quibble with him about unnecessary licenses<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Brent Turner</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com">turnerbrentm@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:32 PM<br>Subject: Re: [CAVO] Fwd: Re: [License-review] Submission of OSET Public License for Approval<br>To: CAVO <<a href="mailto:cavo@opensource.org">cavo@opensource.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Sounds like the McCarthy-esque " constituency" list needs to be further educated ?</div><div><br></div>As I stated to this group previous it would be interesting to hear directly from their mysterious " <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6666669845581px"> constituency of procurement managers " </span><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Lawrence Rosen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com" target="_blank">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>FYI. Larry </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab®|PRO</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Meeker, Heather J." <u></u> <br>Date:09/02/2015 5:56 PM (GMT-08:00) <br>To: License submissions for OSI review <u></u> <br>Cc: Gregory Miller <u></u>,<a href="mailto:legal@osetfoundation.org" target="_blank">legal@osetfoundation.org</a>,John Sebes <u></u>,<a href="mailto:christine@osetfoundation.org" target="_blank">christine@osetfoundation.org</a> <br>Subject: Re: [License-review] Submission of OSET Public License for Approval <br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I am writing to address a few of the issues that have been raised by the discussion</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
so far</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">. Thanks to everyone for their thoughtful questions</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> and comments</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">1. No Problem. The concerns articulated in our rationale document have been expressed to us by our constituency of procurement managers, so we are perplexed
by the assertion that we are addressing “a non-existent problem.” It is true that some governments accept open source when they procure software in some contexts, but “government” is not one single, amorphous group. There is a difference between procurement
of systems via an overarching contract that include open source software, and procurement of a pure open source product. In other words, we are trying to provide a means for replacing the procurement contract -- not merely trying to skate in as an appendix
to it. We are trying to find the path that will enable state and local elections procurement decision-makers to use open source software under our license alone. OSET is not in the business of systems integration. All we have is our open source license.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">2. GPL Only. We also understand many in the free software community feel strongly that software should only be licensed under GPL. That is their prerogative
to choose for their own code, but open source is more inclusive than that. Our license is expressly compatible with GPL. Anyone who prefers to use our software under GPL, or to combine our code into a GPL project, can do so. Anyone who finds they cannot
use the software under GPL -- due to the rationale we articulated in our submission -- can use the code under our license. Our constituency tells us they fall into the latter category, and it is in service of them that we have prepared and submitted the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">3. Is it Open Source? Finally, we prepared our license to fit the open source definition. We hope that anyone who has concerns about this will express them
here. But </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">the license is an open source license if it fits the open source definition.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
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