[License-review] Please review revised ModelGo licenses

[Richard Fontana]

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM Moming Duan <duanmoming at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lastly, I still have not identified which specific clause of OSD this output provision directly violates.

I don't think it violates any specific clause of the OSD. However, the
OSI does not say that literal conformance to the OSD is the only
requirement for approval of a license:
https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process :
"It is not possible to comprehensively list all reasons that a license
may or may not be approved. Software changes and the role that a
license plays in it might change. There will be times when a license
presents an issue never considered before. Members of the
license-review list are highly skilled, experienced, and deeply
involved in Open Source software. Their consensus that a license does
not ensure software freedom may, in some cases, be the justification
for rejecting a license even where they cannot identify a specific
aspect of the OSD or the approval guidelines below that is not met."

If I remember correctly, one reason why this language was added was
that there was at least one submission of a license that attempted to
extend copyleft to mere output (like my editor hypothetical in an
earlier thread), where the license submitter argued that the license
should be approved because it did not violate any specific provision
of the OSD.

Richard