ESD Fragment for context: > The software project’s maintainers may, at their discretion, request remuneration in the form of code contributions, financial consideration, or other forms of voluntary support
McCoy Smith: > “Voluntary” modifies “support” not “remuneration” or “financial consideration” Consider the phrase "cola, guabo, mountain dew, or other fizzy drinks". Now, you do not know what "guabo" is (because I just made it up), but you do know it must be a fizzy drink. The "other" signifies that the following classifier is the one that the previous items fall under. (This is not an opinion about the ESD, but a statement about language.) Sincerely, Jasper On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 3:07 AM McCoy Smith <mc...@lexpan.law> wrote: > *From:* License-discuss <license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org> *On > Behalf Of *Coraline Ada Ehmke > *Sent:* Sunday, March 15, 2020 5:45 PM > *To:* license-discuss@lists.opensource.org > *Subject:* Re: [License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower > authors outside license agreements? > > > > > > > > On Mar 15, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Brendan Hickey <brendan.m.hic...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > "It encourages fair compensation. The software project’s maintainers may, > at their discretion, request remuneration in the form of code > contributions, financial consideration, or other forms of voluntary support > from organizations that derive commercial value from the software.” > > > > So asking for voluntary donations or code contributions is verboten? What > about all those projects signed up with Tidelift and OpenCollective, are > they not open source anymore? > > > > “Voluntary” modifies “support” not “remuneration” or “financial > consideration” > > > > And “shall not” in OSD 1 is the opposite of “may” in ESD 7. > > > > Or to simply matters, a license that says “Exercise of the license rights > is conditioned upon You paying me fair compensation” would satisfy ESD 7 > but violate both OSD 1 and the FSD 2 & 3 (“Freedom to distribute > (freedoms 2 and 3) means you are free to redistribute copies, either with > or without modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, > to anyone anywhere > <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#exportcontrol>. Being free > to do these things means (among other things) that you do not have to ask > or **pay for permission to do so.**”) > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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