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What?? What on earth are you talking about? No one has ever
suggested to me, nor have I suggested to anyone, that the opinions
of anyone are not to be considered.<br>
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Pam <br>
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<div class="moz-signature">Pamela Chestek<br>
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On 1/1/2020 11:52 PM, Bruce Perens via License-review wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Don't waste your time, Bradley. They were told not
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 6:29 PM
Bradley M. Kuhn <<a href="mailto:bkuhn@ebb.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">bkuhn@ebb.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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can't find an example when OSI approved a novel copyleft
license that<br>
hadn't yet been used in practice and therefore had no track
record of use<br>
for any FOSS project. It was once somewhat common for OSI to
approve<br>
licenses that were used by only one entity, and most of those
licenses were<br>
never used beyond the one project, and even most of those
entities have<br>
deprecated those by now. (OSI also made a decision to cease
considering<br>
such single-use licenses.) Rapid acceptance of a novel
licenses, so far<br>
unused in practice, causes confusion in the FOSS community.<br>
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Folks have shouted down Bruce as he wonders how Van's license
will be used<br>
in practice. I think Bruce has made a useful point on this
thread: as a<br>
general matter, it's relevant that we consider how the license
impacts<br>
users' *and* software publishers' software freedoms in
*practice*, not<br>
merely *in theory*.<br>
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In that regard, I'd like to know if the project that plans to
use this<br>
license will be inbound=outbound (i.e., is the entity that's
promulgating<br>
this new license willing to bound themselves by the license
terms)? Van,<br>
could you tell us, on behalf of your client (who appears to be
the only<br>
potential licensor interested in this license), what their
contribution<br>
plans are regarding this license? Are they planning to accept
contributions<br>
under this license, and thus be bound by it for their FOSS
projects?<br>
If not, why not?<br>
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Bradley M. Kuhn - he/him<br>
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Conservancy:<br>
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