[License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

[John Cowan]

There was a time when the OSI believed that the more licenses the merrier,
as long as they all complied with the OSD.  At that time we were trying to
encourage companies to release their code as FLOSS, no matter what annoying
conditions they put on it.  Only later did the costs to both developers and
end users of having zillions of slightly different and incompatible
licensing regimes sink in.

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 6:46 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com>
wrote:

> It's my understanding that OSI has always campaigned against license
> proliferation.
>
> Christine Hall
> Publisher & Editor
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
> http://fossforce.com
>
> On 7/3/19 5:29 PM, James wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:17 PM Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> James, I understand the problem of the companies pushing for that, but
> a license that everyone can use except Amazon, or SaaS companies, or SaaS
> companies over a certain size, isn't copyleft and isn't "strong" copyleft.
> It's just restrictive. Heather and Kyle came up with "Polyform", which IMO
> sounds too much like "colorforms" but it's fine as long as you don't call
> it "Open Source" or "Free Software".
> >
> > Perhaps I didn't phrase clearly, but I wasn't disagreeing with you
> > about not calling it "Open Source" or "Free Software". I agree it
> > shouldn't be called that.
> >
> > Clarified for you, my comments meant to state:
> > 1) OSI should campaign against proliferation as part of it's mission.
> > 2) Companies are now trying out restrictive, non-open source licenses.
> > I think it's a mistake, and what they really want is normal copyleft.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James
> >
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