[License-review] For Approval: Convertible Free Software License, Version 1.1 (C-FSL v1.1)

[Kyle Mitchell]

On 2018-09-28 12:09, Bruce Perens wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:41 AM Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:
>
> > Declaring approved licenses non-precedential would reject
> > the common-law mechanism by which US law develops, which you
> > describe.
> >
>
> OSI does not and has never practiced law, and is not going to start doing
> so going forward.

It was your analogy.  I merely extended it.  But I didn't
take it literally in your original form, either, because
there is nothing close to law here to make.

My point is that it isn't externally clear _how_ OSI goes
about this process.  A high proportion of license
submissions turning into discussions of the process and how
to clarify it is symptomatic.  And wasteful.

I think we both agree that learnings on predictability and
legitimacy from law could help there.

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Kyle Mitchell, attorney // Oakland // (510) 712 - 0933