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

[Bruce Perens]

Don't waste your time, Bradley. They were told not to listen to you,
either.

On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 6:29 PM Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at ebb.org> wrote:

> I can't find an example when OSI approved a novel copyleft license that
> hadn't yet been used in practice and therefore had no track record of use
> for any FOSS project.  It was once somewhat common for OSI to approve
> licenses that were used by only one entity, and most of those licenses were
> never used beyond the one project, and even most of those entities have
> deprecated those by now.  (OSI also made a decision to cease considering
> such single-use licenses.)  Rapid acceptance of a novel licenses, so far
> unused in practice, causes confusion in the FOSS community.
>
> Folks have shouted down Bruce as he wonders how Van's license will be used
> in practice.  I think Bruce has made a useful point on this thread: as a
> general matter, it's relevant that we consider how the license impacts
> users' *and* software publishers' software freedoms in *practice*, not
> merely *in theory*.
>
> In that regard, I'd like to know if the project that plans to use this
> license will be inbound=outbound (i.e., is the entity that's promulgating
> this new license willing to bound themselves by the license terms)?  Van,
> could you tell us, on behalf of your client (who appears to be the only
> potential licensor interested in this license), what their contribution
> plans are regarding this license?  Are they planning to accept
> contributions
> under this license, and thus be bound by it for their FOSS projects?
> If not, why not?
> --
>
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