<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 4:46 PM Josh Berkus <<a href="mailto:josh@berkus.org">josh@berkus.org</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">
If anything, we've stated categorically that we cannot enforce "moral"<br>
behavior through licensing. Heck, if Holochain is using patents to<br>
enforce user ownership of data, that seems like moral behavior anyway.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for taking the time to understand the scenario.</div><div><br></div><div>Rather than being a moral consideration, it's directly related to our mission to protect Open Source and facilitate its development and use everywhere. We would create, by our adoption of a license, an area in which interoperable software under any of the so-far-approved Open Source licenses <i>can not participate.</i> If we are to be good stewards of Open Source, we should not <i>constrain</i> Open Source this way.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div></div></div>