[License-review] For approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4)

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Hi Pam, thank you very much.

I'll get my write-up done today.

Pamela Chestek writes:

> Chris,
>
> Your audience is now the Board and I will bring their attention to your
> concerns at the Board meeting on Friday.
>
> Pam
>
> Pamela Chestek
> Chair, License Review Committee
> Open Source Initiative
>
> On 2/10/2020 8:16 PM, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote:
>> Josh Berkus writes:
>>
>>> On 1/7/20 11:00 AM, Pamela Chestek wrote:
>>>> The discussion is still active so it will not be considered at the next
>>>> Board meeting, which is this Friday. The soonest would be the February
>>>> Board meeting.
>>> So, it's been a month since there's been any discussion about the CAL.
>>> Pamela, can we take a poll of how people feel about the license?
>>> Pass/Reject/MoreDiscussionNeeded?
>> I'm not very sure if I'm in the right place to state this, but I'd say
>> "Reject" or at least "MoreDiscussionNeeded".  I believe there are very
>> serious problems in the license that will (ironically, due to its name)
>> prevent the ability to have safely private networks on cryptographically
>> secure peer to peer networks.  I believe I can demonstrate the privacy
>> risks, and spend most of tomorrow doing a detailed and longer writeup
>> about my concerns.  Note that I don't think it's any malicious intention
>> of the author to introduce these problems; I think Van is acting in good
>> faith and interest there, but nonetheless I think the concerns exist and
>> are very grave, if I understand correctly.
>>
>> If I am going to air them before the board meeting, am I doing it in the
>> right place here?  If so, I will follow up on the thread here tomorrow.
>>
>>  - Chris
>>
>> PS: I'm sorry I haven't aired my very serious concerns earlier.  Van
>> asked me personally to review at last year's CopyleftConf and I never
>> got around to writing up my thoughts.  I regret that, and wish I had
>> done so sooner... maybe I could have prevented a lot of trouble.
>> Nonetheless I think it's important that I write them up now; I'm
>> guessing we're in the "speak now or forever hold your peace" moment
>> though, so I'm trying to articulate my concerns before it's too late.
>>
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