A "Big Corporation" and a "Giant Corporation" are both groups. The licenses disadvantage both by not granting them a license. So yes, fails OSD.
> -----Original Message----- > From: License-discuss <license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org> On > Behalf Of Mat K. Witts > Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2021 4:06 PM > To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org > Subject: [License-discuss] OSI definition > > The Open Source Definition (Annotated) is located on the internet at > https://opensource.org/osd-annotated > > Section 5, 'No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups' states, 'The license > must not discriminate against any person or group of persons'. The Rationale > concludes: '[...] we forbid any open-source license from locking anybody out > of the process'... > > Section 6, 'No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor' states, 'The license > must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of > endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a > business, or from being used for genetic research'. The Rationale suggests: > 'The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent > open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to > join our community, not feel excluded from it.' > > Leftcopy (https://leftcopy.org) is a very simple, permissive licensing program > based on MIT/Expat and 2-Clause BSD. It features one added restriction that > only applies to legal entities having shareholders entitled to receive dividends > from profits and employing more people than the license allows. Leftcopy > does not restrict individual employees, groups of employees, individual > shareholders, or groups of shareholders, individual company officers, or > groups of company officers or any customers from using the work, even > commercially. It does not lock any human beings 'out of the process', (so to > speak). Leftcopy does not appear to directly or indirectly disadvantage any > person or group of persons or discriminate against any field of endeavor. Are > there any objections to this interpretation? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
