[License-review] Request for License Review - BarrerSoftware License (BSL)v1.0

[Josh Berkus]

Holiday greetings, Mr. Elliott

> Currently, no OSI-approved license provides strong anti-commercialization
> protections while maintaining all four essential freedoms (use, study, 
> modify,
> distribute).

No OSI-approved license provides this, because no such license would be 
considered Open Source.  This is precisely what clause 6 of the Open 
Source Definition covers, unambiguously:

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6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a 
specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program 
from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
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As such, we are unable to approve your license, as there is no question 
that it is not open source.  You are welcome to withdraw the submission, 
or we can file a rejection for the record according to the terms of 
License Review, if you wish.

In addition, if you are going to publish an open-ish non-open source 
license, let me suggest that you NOT use the acronym "BSL"?  That's 
already widely used by the Business Source License (also BuSL), another 
popular non-OSS license.

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-- Josh Berkus
OSI Board Member