Hi Russell, Thank you for your response!
It's clear we're approaching this from different perspectives, I think the best next step is to work towards an AAL 2.0 which will enable more shared code AND better licenses. On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:24 PM Russell McOrmond <russellmcorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:39 PM Hillel Coren <hillelco...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It's easy to assume that by deprecating attribution based licenses >> developers will either choose a different OSI approved license or change >> their software from being labeled 'OSS' to 'Source-available software'. I'd >> argue in practice many developers (ourselves included) would instead choose >> to share less code. >> > > Can you explain to me why it should concern us if people wishing to > discriminate decide to publish less code rather than adopt a > non-discriminatory OSI approved license? > > While I don't consider publishing software or its source code to itself be > a public good, I believe reducing the harm (though waiving of rights > implied by most OSI approved licenses) from the excessive control software > authors have over society is a public good. > > Discriminatory software (IE: proprietary software) , with or without > source code being available, has existed for a long time. If you wish to > adopt a proprietary business model and associated licensing that is your > choice. > > BTW: I have no idea how you are trying to define OSS such that it is > different from FOSS or FLOSS or other acronyms to describe the same thing. > > _______________________________________________ > The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not > necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the > Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. > > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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