On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 5:51 PM Simon Phipps <webm...@opensource.org> wrote: > > [Moving this thread to license-discuss as it is not about a specific license]
Thank you! > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:40 PM Richard Fontana > <richard.font...@opensource.org> wrote: >> >> >> I lean towards disagreeing with this; I think that the business model of the >> license submitter can be a material consideration when assessing whether the >> proposed license meets the OSD and would guarantee software freedom. > > > Just the submitter's business model, or the business models of any possible > user of the license? Just the submitter's, I think, if only because it may be too hard to think about all the possible ways an approved license might be gamed or (arguably) misused by a future licensor unconnected to the submitter. Also I think we ought to acknowledge that in practice licenses submitted by businesses tend not be used by other licensors (apart from forks). That was one of the reasons why the vanity corporate licenses of the earlier era of open source were problematic. Richard _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
