For Approval By: S-GPL

[Russ Nelson]

Joel Sherrill writes:
 > This violates criteria number 5.
 > 
 > 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
 > 
 > The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

Well, but we've held that a license *can* discriminate as long as all
the possible paths through the license terminate in acceptable terms
under the OSD.  The reason for #5 is to stop people who want to say
"It's free for everyone but commercial users" or "You can't use this
software to create nuclear weapons."

 > Ignoring that, you will have definition problems
 > on non-profit, enterprise, and "contribution".

Sure, those are just definitional problems.  We can work with zhihang
to fix those.

 > As a project maintainer, I wouldn't want to be put in a position
 > to arbitrate or track the requirements this license would
 > require for me to properly administer it.

Then you probably wouldn't use it.

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