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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">>>From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> License-review [mailto:license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Carlo Piana<br>
<b>>>Sent:</b> Friday, January 11, 2019 3:46 AM<br>
<b>>>To:</b> Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@elstel.org>; License submissions for OSI review <license-review@lists.opensource.org>; Carlo Piana <osi-review@piana.eu><br>
<b>>>Subject:</b> Re: [License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.3 (C-FSL v1.3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">>></span># THERE IS MORE!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#1F497D">>></span>Under Section 5.1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre><span style="color:#1F497D">>></span>f) You must make available to the public any Derivative Work or changes to the Work within one month from their creation. <o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">>></span>This creates another huge asymmetry. <o:p>
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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">>></span>Under copyright law, I can decide whether or not to publish the code i contribute. Under the p<span style="color:#1F497D">ro</span>posed license, it is required that this right is waived as a condition to use the copyright.
I think this is unprecedented. I might be making changes that I don't want to release to the public neither in object code, because they are buggy, because I don't want to take responsibility if anybody uses them. In this case, if I fork the project I have
NO WAY TO AVOID PROVIDING IT UPSTREAM. <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hence the value of Freedom Zero of the FSD. I continue to think that that concept is inherent in the OSD (in particular OSD 9), and not having it be a part of the OSD results
in rather bizarre theoretical results, which I outlined here: <a href="http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2018-October/003751.html">
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2018-October/003751.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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