License for approval

[Matthew Flaschen]

Allison shi wrote:
> I'm requesting For Approval of the UOML License:
> http://www.uoml.org/uoml_license.html
>  
> This license is  based on
> CDDL Version 1.0, < http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php> and
> Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1),  
> <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php> with some of 
> modification of our own.
>  
> submission type: for approval
> license name: UOML_License

You should follow the procedure at http://www.opensource.org/approval. 
Among other things, you need to "Clearly state rationale for a new 
license" (why can't you use MPL or CDDL), and "Compare to and contrast 
with the most similar OSI-approved license(s)" (how is it different from 
these; don't make us find the differences ourselves).

So far, I've noticed:

"To ensure the document interoperability, the work should conform to 
UOML and access documents only via UOML."

That appears to be a violation of OSD #6 ("No Discrimination Against 
Fields of Endeavor"), #8 ("License Must Not Be Specific to a Product"), 
and #10 ("License Must Be Technology-Neutral")

In particular, #10 says, "No provision of the license may be predicated 
on any individual technology or style of interface."

UOML is an individual technology and perhaps even a kind of interface, 
so this provision isn't acceptable.

OSI welcomes open standards, but OSI-approved licenses can not require 
that code only be used with a particular standard.

Matt Flaschen