[License-discuss] Copyright on APIs

[VanL]

Hi Larry,

Just making sure I understand:

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:22 PM Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:

> I again plead with OSI, regardless of what the Supreme Court does with the
> Oracle v. Google case, that OSI never again approve an open source license*
> that  purports to impede in any way by copyright infringement the freedom
> to copy and use any functional API in any open source software. This should
> be OUR requirement for software freedom. You should educate the public that
> this is OUR goal for open source....
>
> ...
>
>
>
> * Like the GPL and the AGPL!
>

So your view is that the OSI should never approve an additional reciprocal
license? Under any circumstance?

Thanks,
Van
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