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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Although this is ultimately a question that OSI may wish to resolve, I have always read OSD 5 in the following way:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans","sans-serif";color:#444444">5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:#FCFCFC"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans","sans-serif";color:#444444">The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons *<b>by denying any person or group
of person the rights under OSD 1-3 & 6-10.</b>*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:#FCFCFC"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That reading is, I believe, consistent with the annotation that “</span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans","sans-serif";color:#444444;background:#FCFCFC">In
order to get the maximum benefit from the process, the maximum diversity of persons and groups should be equally eligible to contribute to open sources. Therefore we forbid any open-source license from locking anybody out of the process.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As an example of where a contrary reading of OSD 5 would produce a result that would be problematic, GPLv3’s “Installation Information” requirement imposes
different obligations on users depending on the particular types of devices on which they have written their code to run. That isn’t, to my mind, “discrimination,” as it does not deny those users right rights to freely redistribute, to get source, to make
derivatives, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> License-review [mailto:license-review-bounces@opensource.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Luis Villa<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 29, 2016 7:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi; License submissions for OSI review<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [License-review] Submission of the Upstream Compatibility License v1.0 (UCL-1.0) for approval<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+1 to all this. Like Henrik, I didn't read the license, so this is not a comment on the particular license, but many of our licenses have always permitted a variety of imbalances between various participants in the ecosystem. If this is
a bad idea, OSI should say that for all those other arrangements as well, and figure out how to formalize that rule, rather than stretching the non-discrimination principle.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Luis<o:p></o:p></p>
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