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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>On Wed, Aug 16, 2023, at 17:00, Legal Desk via License-review wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:2px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;"><b><i>Rationale f</i>or a new license</b><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:2px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;"><b></b><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;">The <a href="https://license.openconstitution.us/open-constitution-license-v1">Open Constitution License (OCL)</a> is a novel open-source license that grants intellectual property rights to source code hosted on an Artificial Intelligence network. It sets rules for data integrity, authorization, and redistribution of IP through a publicly accessible network.<span> </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);white-space:pre-wrap;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:small;">The license considers factors such as open data principles, copyrightability of AI/ML systems, data privacy, fair competition, and responsibility in AI/ML-driven decisions.</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:15px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;">OCL <b><i>differs from other open-source licenses</i></b> in its focus on AI and its specific provisions for data protection, international law, and the role of the public network.<span> </span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;">It introduces General Public Tokenization, and electronic persons in the context of open source IPR.<br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:15px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;">OCL establishes a chain of authorship <b><i>similar to</i></b> EUPL-1.2 or a restriction on the Licensee for data integrity performance when redistributing to a beneficiary,<b> s<i>imilar to </i></b>CAL1.0, <br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:15px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:15px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;">PLAIN TEXT COPY OF THE LICENSE<br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(220, 161, 13);"><u><a href="https://license.openconstitution.us/license-copy-eng" target="_blank">https://license.openconstitution.us/license-copy-eng</a></u><br></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This license contains a definition of "Open Source" which is not based on the OSD. It seems highly unlikely that the OSI would approve a license containing a conflicting definition of this fundamental term.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Article 1 section b is somewhat poorly drafted, but in any case requires that a 'derivative work' comply with a third party's "Acceptable Usage Conditions". This is clearly not compatible with OSD 5 and 6, which disallow discrimination against person(s) or group(s), and against fields of endeavor. Article 5 is also incompatible with OSD 5 and 6.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Article 2.1 is not compatible with OSD 10; the license cannot dictate any specific technological mechanisms.<br></div><div><br></div></body></html>