[License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

[Danese Cooper]

Thanks John for having an accurate memory!

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 1:56 AM John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> 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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