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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> License-review [mailto:license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruce Perens<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 23, 2018 12:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> License submissions for OSI review <license-review@lists.opensource.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [License-review] OSD #9 would not make SSPL OSD-incompliant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The OSD terms were not written for software-as-a-service. OSD #9 very clearly states<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">The license must not place restrictions on other software that is
<b>distributed</b> along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs
<b>distributed on the same medium</b> must be open-source software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Since software-as-a-service software is not distributed, OSD #9 doesn't apply. Sorry. The document was written for another time and I could not predict today's conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"> Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"> Bruce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Isn’t this OSD 9: “</span>License Must Not Restrict Other Software<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">The part you quote seems to be explanatory of the definition, but not necessarily limiting. I’ve been drafting a mail to license-discuss on OSD 9 and how I think
it ought to be interpreted, but this seems to be an important question: what is the *<b>D*
</b>part of the OSD.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">It also seems curious to me that you can put *<b>more</b>* restrictions on software on non-distributed media than you can on distributed media, but perhaps there
is some history of that part of the OSD that I’m unaware of. To me, the example text you have reproduced is written that way because it inherently assumes Freedom Zero.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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