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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/22/2019 6:51 PM, VanL wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Bruce,
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 3:42
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 22, 2019
at 3:37 PM VanL <<a
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<div dir="auto">I know you consider the CAL's user
autonomy provisions to be a field of use
restriction as well, but you seem to be alone in
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<div>It's not proper for a license submitter to rule
unilaterally that a particular critic is alone in
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<div>You need to leave that to the group to decide.
Please remember that you are submitting a license
for this group to review.<br>
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<div dir="auto">No disrespect intended. I was not making a
value statement or final judgment, I was only making an
observation about the comments pro and con that have been
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For what it's worth, I agree with Bruce's view on the
inappropriateness of imposing restrictions on data in a software
license. So he is not the only one.<br>
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And I hope it's obvious that am speaking here for myself only, not
for the OSI.<br>
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Pam<br>
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Pamela S. Chestek<br>
Chestek Legal<br>
PO Box 2492<br>
Raleigh, NC 27602<br>
919-800-8033<br>
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