[License-review] For Approval: Rewrite of License Zero Reciprocal Public License

[Bruce Perens]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:

>
> Note sure where this points.  Do you think you've met a
> court that would compel the owner of a large body of code to
> release it Open Source after `l0rwc -l proprietary/**/*.c`?


In the case of the GPL, Richard did not spell out what amount of code
combination was de minimis. What I was trying to say was that in practice
that does not matter, because nobody is compelled to GPL their large work
for a de minimis combination.

This is a different issue from your last draft of L0-R, which IMO asks for
too much - the dedication of a work to Open Source - for very little in
return - the right to simply run a program. So, while I can reject it
strictly on OSD grounds, I should really stress that this is an issue of
principle. OSI should not endorse that sort of poor bargain with
certification of the license.
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