On 3/6/20 7:22 PM, Coraline Ada Ehmke wrote:
“Hostile takeover” is not a goal of the Ethical Source Movement.
Yes, it is. The Ethical Source Definition is hostile to the Open Source Definition -- that's why you want to change it. You want to take our authority, against our will, and use it to promote your ideas. That's not fine. What IS fine is for you to continue to promote the Ethical Source Definition using your own resources, not using our resources to promote it.
The OSD very specifically does nothing to limit the use of open source software. That is by design. The Ethical Source Definition very much attempts to limit the use of ESD. It's incoherent. ESD#1 says "can be freely used", but ESD#4 says that a license MUST prohibit software from being used by certain parties.
The ESD may be a good idea, or it may be a bad idea. What it definitely is, is against the OSD. Licenses which comply with the ESD are incompatible with licenses that comply with the OSD.
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