With the possible exception of the Affero license, which we should discuss off-list, I don't believe you are in a minority at all.
On Sat, May 25, 2019, 17:20 Russell McOrmond <russellmcorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:52 PM Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > >> IMO, this OSI mailing list is a natural place for people supportive of >> OSI's real-world objectives. >> > > The OSI as an organisation is free to determine its own objectives. > Whether they are in-line with what other people consider to be the > real-world objectives of software freedom can and does change over time. > > My interest in Free Software was to ensure that the rules that governed > computers were transparent and accountable to the owners of those > computers. This to me is what the Free Software definition, and the > derivative Open Source definition, were all about. > > Then came along software patents which made discussion of copyright-only > licenses necessary but not sufficient for software freedom. > Then came along attacks on private modification with Affero licenses which > I believe will have the harmful consequence of expanding the scope of > copyright law. > Then came along hardware that didn't allow owners to make their own > software choices, and inappropriate laws protecting this attack on > technology property rights. > And now some in the FLOSS community want a say in what a user of software > that is neither modifying or distributing it does with that software. > > > I consider all of that incompatible with the real-world objectives of the > FLOSS movement, but recognise that at this specific time in the life of the > movement that I'm in the minority. > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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