<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Carlo Piana <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osi-review@piana.eu" target="_blank">osi-review@piana.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 25/10/2016 18:04, Nigel T wrote:<br>
> My opinion is that the OSI should be more inclusive of differing<br>
> opinions within the FOSS community. That includes licenses that are<br>
> more friendly for commercial entities to maintain a business model<br>
> that supports both open and closed source.<br>
<br>
</span>I find this statement disturbing in that it suggests that OSI is<br>
unfriendly to dual-licensing (I think the objection relates to this kind<br>
of business model more than others that rely on also non-open source).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then I wrote that poorly.</div><div><br></div><div>The suggestion is not that OSI is unfriendly to dual licensing but that a license that facilitates the co-existance of proprietary and open business models isn't antithetical to OSI's mission: promoting open source.</div><div><br></div><div>Supporting sustainable open source business models, even those that rely on closed source revenue streams, seems to be within the swim lane.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Can we please address the main issue in a detached way: can a license<br>
create an embedded asymmetry of rights, allowing certain people to do<br>
things that others cannot do and still be called open source? Or does it<br>
create two (or more) legal commons just starting from the license and<br>
thereby discriminating?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, according to the FSF, yes. That's not definitive for the OSI but NPL is considered a Free License by the FSF.</div><div><br></div><div>Was NPL rejected or never submitted for OSI approval?</div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Nigel </div></div></div></div>