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<p>Can you describe what changes you've made in sections 1 and 4
from the CAL license? It looks significantly different right at
the start - The heading of Section 1 of the CAL is "Purpose" but
yours is "Definitions."</p>
<p>From the outset your "Definitions" have at least one problematic
section, which is that it states "1.1.2 Licensor Portable Data
Corporation, operating as JLINC Labs, is the licensor of the Work
and provides this Accountable Resolver License under the terms set
out below." The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process">approval
guidelines for licenses</a> state one requirement is "The
license must be reusable, meaning that it can be used by any
licensor without changing the terms or having the terms achieve a
different result for a different licensor." Hard coding an entity
name in means that the license is not usable by anyone else. It
also effectively prevents anyone else from using this license even
for modifications to your software - that is, if someone modifies
the code they are the licensor of their modifications, but the
license says that JLINC is the licensor, so they cannot use this
license for their modifications. They could use a Compatible Open
Source License for their contributions, but then you are creating
a license compliance nightmare for anyone using the software.<br>
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<p>I have not reviewed the license beyond Section 1 because of this
flaw and because I would like to have more background on your
changes from the CAL before diving in.<br>
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<p>Pam<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">Pamela S. Chestek<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/21/2024 1:39 PM, Victor Grey via
License-review wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">To the OSI community, this is a request for approval for a new special-purpose open source license, as attached. The license is intended for software that provides registration and resolution services for Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://w3c.github.io/did-core/">https://w3c.github.io/did-core/</a>). Such software may be used as a standalone service or incorporated into any other software to provide DID resolution services for any purpose, conditioned on it not being used to violate the privacy rights of end users of the service.
It is based on the Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL-1.0) and is identical to CAL-1.0 with the exceptions of section 1 and portions of section 4.
* We believe and affirm that the license complies with the Open Source Definition, including specifically that it meets OSD 3, 5, 6 and 9.
* The license is currently being used in a private beta of a Federated ID service offered by JLINC Labs, and is already planned to be incorporated in several other businesses, to become public this year or early next year.
* The license steward and submitter is Victor Grey, on behalf of the Portable Data Corporation DBA JLINC Labs, reachable at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:victor@jlinc.com">victor@jlinc.com</a>.
* The license shall be known as the Accountable Resolver License version 1.0.
* There are no unique identifiers by other projects or proposed tags.
* We believe it fills a gap in necessary privacy requirements for these types of services that we have found in no other license.
* As stated above, it is based on CAL-1.0.
* It has not been through any other legal review by us.
Many thanks for your attention,
Victor Grey
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