Quoting Luis Villa (l...@lu.is):
> People who have asked questions of the list have certainly been told that,
> both explicitly and by implication ("well, it isn't written down anywhere
> else, so...") Usually politely, but polite terrible news is still terrible
> news.
That's regrettable and it
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:47 AM Rick Moen wrote:
By the way, Luis, has OSI ever _really_ advised newcomers to 'read the
> archives'? Certainly, speaking for myself, *I'd* never so recommend,
> for multiple reasons including that just never working.
>
People who have asked questions of the list
Quoting Luis Villa (l...@lu.is):
> The next step in the long run should be to figure out how to create
> authoritative summaries of license proposal discussions, so that newcomers
> and non-experts can reasonably and transparently understand OSI and OSD.
Along those lines, the occasional summarie
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:59 AM Henrik Ingo
wrote:
> There are plenty of areas of the law where precedent is set aside: if not,
> courts would never overrule their previous decisions. "Not in accordance
> with precedent" is not the same as "arbitrary".
>
As a simple case, consider the doctrine
Quoting Henrik Ingo (henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi):
> I can of course only speak for myself, but I don't think the above is
> the right conclusion at all. Recent mailing list discussion seems to
> have made the point that adhering to precedent is hard, when in most
> cases the process does not produc
> On Jun 4, 2019, at 4:12 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:45 PM Christopher Sean Morrison via
> License-discuss wrote:
"The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Government
works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works
>>>
Brian Behlendorf asked about California's funding for open source voting
software:
> However, it also stipulates a 3:1 matching ($3 for every $1 spent, up to $8M
> of the total fund) when that software is exclusively GPLv3 licensed. I'd love
> to understand the arguments that led to the conclus
On 6/3/2019 7:13 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> for basic "is it used by any modern-ish software at all" those could
> give you a pretty good start.
It might reduce some of the perceived risks with changing opinions or
classifications of licenses if they aren't in use anyway. It's also a
bit of proof
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:20 PM John Cowan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 4:13 AM Henrik Ingo wrote:
>> > As noted in the preceding link, prevailing view and treatment is that
>> > there is full copyright protection in some jurisdictions.
>>
>> Clearly it is not *prevailing* in this community.
>
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 4:13 AM Henrik Ingo
wrote:
> > As noted in the preceding link, prevailing view and treatment is that
> there is full copyright protection in some jurisdictions.
>
> Clearly it is not *prevailing* in this community.
>
No one has polled us, so no one knows if it is actually
> I'd love to understand the arguments that led to the conclusion that GPLv3
> licensed works represent a greater public good here and thus justify more
> subsidy than others.
>
Hazarding a guess: the Installation Information provision of GPLv3 (aka
anti-TiVoization) might have held sway here
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019, 04:13 Henrik Ingo wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:45 PM Christopher Sean Morrison via
> License-discuss wrote:
> > >> "The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Government
> works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works
> abroad. Wo
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:45 PM Christopher Sean Morrison via
License-discuss wrote:
> >> "The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Government
> >> works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works
> >> abroad. Works of the governments of most other countries
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:58 PM Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting McCoy Smith (mccoy.sm...@intel.com):
>
> > The problem with "grandfathering" such licenses is that they can be
> > used as precedent for new license submitters as to why their non-OSD
> > compliant licenses must also be approved.
>
> Sever
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