[License-discuss] [CAVO] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

Grahame Grieve grahame at healthintersections.com.au
Wed May 27 01:35:16 UTC 2015


well, there might be a scope issue here.

"for a particular purpose, non OSI approved licenses are not considered
open source'

But perhaps that's implicit in the context and only confusing for me
because you quoted a piece out of context - that's what Brian implies.

Grahame


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>
wrote:

> Thank you Allison and Grahame, I'll have to be more precise next time. You
> can help me. What would you suggest we say when the OSET Foundation
> proposes
> a voting or election system with a non-OSI-approved "open source license"
> called OPL:
>
>
> http://static1.squarespace.com/static/528d46a2e4b059766439fa8b/t/53558db1e4b
> 0191d0dc6912c/1398115761233/OPL_FAQ_Apr14.pdf.
>
> Should OSI say more than "not approved"?
>
> /Larry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allison Randal [mailto:allison at opensource.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:44 PM
> To: license-discuss at opensource.org; Lawrence Rosen
> Cc: CAVO
> Subject: Re: [CAVO] [License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft
>
> On 05/26/2015 02:44 PM, Grahame Grieve wrote:
> > "ALL OSI-approved licenses are open source. Other licenses are not"
> >
> > I don't think that the last bit is right.
> >
> > "other licenses cannot be known to be" or "other licenses may not be"
> > - but you can't outright claim that just because OSI has not approved
> > a license, it's *not* open source
>
> Yes, good clarification. That's certainly not what we meant to imply.
> Mainly we were focused on the fact that the set of open source licenses
> includes more than just the GPL.
>
> Allison
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