<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Shuji-san, thank you!</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>By way of clarification, a couple of quick remarks where my thought could be obscure:</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>Da: </b>"Shuji Sado" <shujisado@gmail.com><br><b>A: </b>"License submissions for OSI review" <license-review@lists.opensource.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"Carlo Piana" <carlo@piana.eu><br><b>Inviato: </b>Luned́, 31 agosto 2026 17:43:30<br><b>Oggetto: </b>Re: [License-review] For Approval: OpenMDW License Agreement, versions 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1)<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>[...]</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On the other hand, regarding Carlo-san's phrase "general waiver of one's right to the licensor," if "waiver" is meant literally, I am not sure that it accurately describes the structure of OpenMDW.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To clarify it was not a discussion about what OpenMDW results into, but a more generic discussion pointing at the upper limit of an hypothetical curve of retaliatory burden imposed by the license. If one entity controlled the entirety of rights over an essential facility, the retaliation would mean either waive any of your rights against us, because you will have no chances of litigating them without losing access to an entire market. Establishing where a retaliation clause ends to be acceptable, if at all, and in which dimension, is the crux of this debate, I believe.</div><div><br></div><div>[...]</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">However, the Review Process does not define the OSD as "merely a means." </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree that if I used "merely" I would have heavily -- and probably stupidly -- mischaracterized OSD. It is a means, an important one, because it provides an operative, however incomplete and laconic at times, breakdown of do's and dont's to separate Open Source, or Free, Software, from non open and non free software. The duality is clear, because of the OSD was largely derived directly form the Debian Free Software Guidelines.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Carlo</div></div></div></body></html>