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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#44546A">More likely a court would not be able to apply this language as there is no mechanism for communicating the “vision” to licensees, setting aside how subjective and standardless “alignment” is.
You might occasionally find language like this in an individually negotiated contract, e.g. if you commission an artist to create a specific painting, but it is not practical for a source code form license.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> License-review <license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Russell Nelson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 15, 2024 9:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> license-review@lists.opensource.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [License-review] Request for Review and Approval of the Open Source Protection License (OSPL)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>[This email originated outside of F&R.] <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 6/14/24 22:10, Shuji Sado quoted Harvey at the license Grant of License:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre><span style="color:black">provided that such Adaptations align with the original Author's vision,</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p>This license seems to invite a lawsuit. Only a judge could determine if the Adaptations align with the original Author's vision (which might not even be written down anywhere). Since as the esteemed Larry Rosen put it years ago, "We can't even afford to
WIN a lawsuit, much less lose one.", this license, even if it could be said to comply with OSD6, would be ill advised for anyone to use.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We don't need a license we think nobody should use.<o:p></o:p></p>
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