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

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Wed Nov 8 21:32:56 UTC 2017


I don't stand behind the annotations. One or two sort of miss the purpose
and they could be improved.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 1:16 PM, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:
>
> Analysis, modification, and generation of software are a field of endeavor
>> under OSD # 6.
>>
>
> Okay, so any task counts as a "field of endeavor".  This should be
> explained somewhere, as the examples in the OSDA suggest lines of business.
>
>
>> OSD #2 says the *program *must include source code, so it overrides any
>> provision in OSD # 6 that would prevent the program from having source code.
>>
>
> So "distributing binary without source" is a field of endeavor too, but
> discrimination based on it (that is, forbidding it) is okay because #2.
> This also should be explained.
>
>  But not *other *programs. So, GPL OK, King Midas not OK.
>>
>
> No argument from me.  I just want the ­ı's dotted and the ŧ's crossed.
>
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