<div dir="auto"><div>Other accepted licenses have "original contributor" language, but not granting so much power. OSI policy is they don't have to do something stupid because they've done it in the past. They would not be required to approve this language on the basis of usage in prior licenses.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 11:23 AM Carlo Piana <<a href="mailto:osi-review@piana.eu">osi-review@piana.eu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_2814651221916898790moz-cite-prefix">Ellmar, all,<br>
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I remain quite puzzled by the main feature of the license, namely,
the right of *some* copyright holders in the initial work to
decide on the licensing of the *other* follow-on developers who
are also copyright holders. Isn't it a sort of discrimination,
therefore against #5? <br>
<br>
I know that the same practical effect would be achieved by
assigning the code to a single project, but that it's always an
option for any forker, not a legal effect of the license. Here you
give up your rights on your copyright as a condition of the very
license, which does quite limit the rights of some versus the
rights of others.<br>
<br>
My initial and non meditated reaction is that this license should
be rejected as long as Section 7 is concerned.<br>
<br>
A remark on the need to retain the ability of relicense or to
"make business" (AKA proprietary exploit) with the software.
That's achieved with a liberal, non copyleft license. But
restricting others from doing something that the initial
developers can do, siphoning in the formers' code and copyright,
that does not seem acceptable.<br>
<br>
Or am I mistaken on the working of the condition? <br>
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Carlo<br>
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On 26/09/2018 09:57, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:<br>
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Name: Convertible Free Software License Version 1.1
<br>
Short Identifier: C-FSL v1.1
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URL: <a class="m_2814651221916898790moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.elstel.org/license/C-FSL-v1.1.txt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.elstel.org/license/C-FSL-v1.1.txt</a>
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Rationale and Distinguish:
<br>
While the BSD license allows the whole world to re-license and
while re-licensing is virtually impossible with GPL since every
contributor would need to consent the C-FSL license goes a
practical intermediate way restricting the right to re-license to
a group called the original authors. That way open source
developers are not excluded from making business with others who
want to base a proprietary product on the given piece of open
source software.
<br>
<br>
Proliferation Category & Legal Review:
<br>
Other/Miscellaneous
<br>
A lawyer from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency, USA) has
already checked C-FSL for its proliferation properties. He has
found the license to be compatible with other open source
licenses. He decided that C-FSL can be used together with the CC0
license in the FDtool (functional dependency mining tool) project.
<br>
<br>
list of software which uses C-FSL v1.1.:
<br>
qcoan: <a class="m_2814651221916898790moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.elstel.org/coan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.elstel.org/coan</a>
<br>
xchroot, confinedrv, bundsteg, debcheckroot, dbschemacmd: also
found at <a class="m_2814651221916898790moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.elstel.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.elstel.org</a>
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