<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 11:45 PM Patrick Schleizer <<a href="mailto:adrelanos@riseup.net" target="_blank">adrelanos@riseup.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
>> - A) Did I create my own license at all, or<br>
>> - B) did I only supplement the GPLv3 with terms as GPLv3 allows anyhow?<br><br>
I am wondering what the OSI's view on A) vs B) is.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Although OSI's attorney is here discussing this issue, I don't think he has made statement <i>on behalf of OSI </i>yet, and I personally haven't heard that any opinion exists.</div><div><br></div><div>Were I in your place, I'd try to convince Richard Stallman that indemnification is a good idea, and take it from there. But that is entirely separate from OSI's license approval process, and as far as I can tell OSI can't, and shouldn't, require Richard's blessing.</div><div><br></div><div>Patrick:</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Does any quote "supplement the terms" as per GPLv3 clause "7. Additional</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Terms." result in a difference license?</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Is it possible to quote "supplement the terms" as per GPLv3 clause "7.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Additional Terms." without creation of a different license?</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote>I just can't think of any way to handle this other than as a separate license. Once you add language to a license, its effect is not the same any longer. There was a recent example called the "Commons Clause" where when that additional text was combined with the Apache license, the effect was very different (and IMO not an Open Source license). </div>