[License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

VanL van.lindberg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 23:42:19 UTC 2019


Hi Christine,

Don't paint with too broad a brush. I understand your concern - open source
is not a business plan! - but there are businesses and business plan that
are fully aligned with the goals of the community.

Thanks,
Van

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On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 5:43 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com> wrote:

> On second thought, it's not the enterprise, or enterprise users, who
> want restrictive licenses. It's vendors/developers seeking enterprise
> customers who want to continue calling their software open source, but
> be able to use non open source restrictions because their business plan
> doesn't work.
>
> Christine Hall
> Publisher & Editor
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
> http://fossforce.com
>
> On 7/3/19 5:05 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com
> > <mailto:christine at fossforce.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     as long as there are permissive  licenses, the enterprise is quite
> >     happy with the way things are.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
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