<div dir="auto">[Moving back to just license-review]<br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>Let's remember that 2007 comment about how irrelevant OSI and the OSD were about to become:</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><i>Badgeware is certainly not going away, and my fear is that if the OSI chooses to ignore it, or worse, refuses to approve the licenses, they will find themselves as irrelevant as the UN in short time. </i>(<a href="http://www.royrusso.com/blog/2007/01/11/badgeware-and-open-source/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.royrusso.com/blog/2007/01/11/badgeware-and-open-source/</a>).</div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Where is badgeware now? I could only find that MongoDB was using the license in question, and even they appear to have moved on.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am not going to jump into a 12 year old discussion of badgeware itself, but the example is instructive. You keep on comparing the CAL to the CPAL, suggesting your belief that in a decade, the CAL will be completely irrevelant.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That may or may not be so. But if that is the case.... that doesn't seem to be a terrible outcome for the OSI.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Van</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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