On 22/01/2021 00:29, McCoy Smith wrote: > A corporation is a group of natural persons.
Not on it's own, (your second assertion diminishes this). Presumably, you are wanting to mean 'shareholders', or possibly you want to also include a combination of 'directors' or maybe 'employees or 'customers'? So, you are implying this license discriminates against one or all of these 'groups of people'? Lets' test this out. Is there anything in this license that disallows any of these human beings (or 'natural persons' if you like) using work applied to this license either as individuals or as any of these groups? Answer: No This license could not be used for a powerpoint presentation of an interim report by directors of a giant company at an AGM, or as PDF to meet it's filing requirements at the stock exchange or tax authority (but only because these cases are typical of official company use - and not a field of endevor), but the same exact documents could be used in exactly the same way (that is: as a powerpoint presentation or pdf file) between one or more directors and a small executive recruitment agency, or waved about in a discussion by the water cooler between employees worried about their jobs, or in a trade union meeting calling for pay increases, or by a small print media outlet reporting on the company or at an investment club... and so on and so forth. Hopefully this example illustrates how no group of persons nor field of endeavor is being disadvantaged. > And a legal person This assertion makes the previous assertion less persuasive, not more so. It shows that a limited liability company has a separate legal personality, which of course at the same time seriously undermines the idea that a company is a group of human beings. The rationale for incorporation is of course is just this, to create a legal entity SEPARATE from the groups implied by your first assertion. _______________________________________________ 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
