[License-discuss] Thoughts on AAL and OSS vs FOSS

[Hillel Coren]

Hi Russell,

Thank you for your response!

It's clear we're approaching this from different perspectives, I think the
best next step is to work towards an AAL 2.0 which will enable more shared
code AND better licenses.



On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:24 PM Russell McOrmond <russellmcormond at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:39 PM Hillel Coren <hillelcoren at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It's easy to assume that by deprecating attribution based licenses
>> developers will either choose a different OSI approved license or change
>> their software from being labeled 'OSS' to 'Source-available software'. I'd
>> argue in practice many developers (ourselves included) would instead choose
>> to share less code.
>>
>
> Can you explain to me why it should concern us if people wishing to
> discriminate decide to publish less code rather than adopt a
> non-discriminatory OSI approved license?
>
> While I don't consider publishing software or its source code to itself be
> a public good, I believe reducing the harm (though waiving of rights
> implied by most OSI approved licenses) from the excessive control software
> authors have over society is a public good.
>
> Discriminatory software (IE: proprietary software) , with or without
> source code being available, has existed for a long time.  If you wish to
> adopt a proprietary business model and associated licensing that is your
> choice.
>
> BTW: I have no idea how you are trying to define OSS such that it is
> different from FOSS or FLOSS or other acronyms to describe the same thing.
>
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