[License-review] OSI, legal conditions outside the "four corners" of the license, and PD/CC 0 [was Re: Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?]

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Jan 4 16:42:02 UTC 2012


Quoting Chad Perrin (perrin at apotheon.com):

> > Who exactly in this picture is so claiming?  I certainly wasn't.
> 
> You appear to be using the fact that an attempted PD declaration plus a
> license fallback is not as good as a simple license as a way to argue
> against consideration of something for open source certification.

I did not so state.

You are wasting your time and mine.

> The fact it does not explicitly say that in the license text is a fair
> point, and worth considering. [...]

Sorry, Chad, but I'm done.




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