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

[Luis Villa]

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.


Of course, OSI and many allies will scream bloody murder (arguably with
reason!) if any project uses an unapproved license and claims to be open
source. And no project wants to deal with that; it’s unpleasant personally,
bad PR for the project, etc., etc.

If we’re going to add yet another unwritten rule to the long list of
unwritten rules we might as well just simplify by saying “OSI’s rule is
that only FSF gets to advance the state of the art in copyleft, everyone
else is stuck in a vast set of catch-22s that are impossible to
simultaneously satisfy”.

Luis

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