[License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

[James]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:06 PM Bruce Perens via License-discuss
<license-discuss at lists.opensource.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com> wrote:
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>> as long as there are permissive  licenses, the enterprise is quite happy with the way things are.
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> Well, obviously, it's restrictive licenses they want from us now. And they can have them from Polyform and co., we don't and can't restrict anyone from using the license of their choice on their own work. Just please don't call them Open Source.

Mostly agree. Although s/restrictive/copyleft/ is more what I think
they ultimately need. It will be an expensive lesson.

And as long as OSI is a 501(c)(3) then I hope they combat license
proliferation, since it's very obviously _NOT_ in the public good.

Thanks!