Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:45:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >> Indeed. Larry Rosen, who is an attorney and is the legal advisor to the >> Board of the Open Source Initiative[1], is a major advocate of >> converting copyright licenses into contracts[2], as are major media[3] >> and proprietary software[4][5] companies. >> >> I personally think this explains a great many of the divergences between >> Debian's assessment of licenses and OSI's. > >> [2] http://www.rosenlaw.com/html/GL19.pdf > > This seems to be "form contracts to ensure licenses are enforcable". I > wonder if the OSI is actively recommending licenses that go beyond > copyright law, or if contracts are being recommended even for licenses > that do not. > > If the former, then I'd agree with you, since we tend to view most > licenses that go beyond copyright law as non-free. I think you've summed up what I was trying to say. :-)
> If the latter, then his opinion seems to directly contradict Eben > Moglen's: > > http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-12.html Right; I assumed the former because of this. -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
