[RFC] Serious Open Source (SOS) License -- Injunctive Relief clause

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Mar 15 21:56:26 UTC 2009


Quoting wtfpl user (wtfpl.user at googlemail.com):
> 2009/3/15 Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>:
> > A really Serious License would have proper legal review by at least one
> > qualified attorney. Can you get that?
> > I'd like to hear from your attorney a credible explanation regarding the
> > effectiveness of this language.
> 
> Well, see for example
> 
> http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=ia&vol=app\20030430\02-0836&invol=1

[...]

It took only a few seconds' scrutiny to confirm that these "examples"
were, in this context, non-sequitur.  

Let me recap:  You appear to have been chewing up the time of busy yet
scrupulous people such as Bruce Perens and Russ Nelson, in a fashion
suggesting someone going by the oft-popular theory that being demanding
and high-maintenance for long enough results in your being given what
you want.  Sorry, but that method tends not to work here.

As a footnote, maybe it's just me, but I find that people who omit their
names from online postings are at some risk of being dismissed as yet
another pseudonymous Internet crank trying to avoid accountability.  If
you're Sam Hocevar, you might find it in your interest, in the future,
to post with GECOS / real-name field set to "Sam Hocevar" rather than
"wtfpl user".

-- 
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Rick Moen                 saying that on that day I planned instead to advance.
rick at linuxmafia.com                  -- Alan J. Rosenthal, in The Monastery



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