The purpose of the list is right there, as they say, on the tin: license
discuss. We are all here to discuss, learn, research, share, and investigate
the world of software licenses as they pertain to open source. Josh, Van, Gil,
and others have stated as such, and I'm grateful to each of them fo
Quoting McCoy Smith (mc...@lexpan.law):
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> > On Feb 27, 2020, at 9:24 AM, VanL wrote:
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> > The logic is that discussing naming-and-shaming as a concept is different
> > than actually holding a person up for ridicule or derision.
> >
> > We can discuss the concept without actually
You might want to check out Iain Mitchell’s chapter in this book
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-and-open-source-software-9780199680498?cc=us&lang=en&;
There’s a second edition currently in the works but it won’t be out til the
summer
> On Feb 27, 2020, at 6:28 PM, Michael Downey
To all,
Following an incident on Open Source Initiative mailing lists, the Board
has removed a subscriber from both the License-Review and
License-Discuss mailing lists for repeatedly violating the Code of Conduct.
The Board took steps to mitigate the issue and began deliberating
immediately afte
And now for something completely different...
While it's not nearly as common as it was for a while, now and then we get some
government and inter-governmental clients who want to roll their own license
because they think they are a special case of indemnity or privilege
requirements, things a
Joshua R. Simmons dixit:
>I just want to underscore that this is, indeed, meant to be a place where
>we can discuss licenses ;-)
Ones that improve Open Source, sure.
Licences that introduce new arbitrary restrictions… not so much.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
“It is inappropriate to require that a time
I just want to underscore that this is, indeed, meant to be a place where
we can discuss licenses ;-)
I quite value the thought experiments that have been brought to the list
recently, as they were powerful fodder for refining and clarifying our
understanding of the OSD and open source.
We ought
L-D stands for license discussion. Part of discussion is communication and the
sharing of ideas. If someone cannot ask if an idea works in the OSD(in this
case is there the capability of a license to discriminate and if so under what
circumstances eg. GPL and to what eg. People,other software wo
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:50 PM Russell McOrmond
wrote:
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> I think you have this backwards. The mailing list to discuss ideas
> compatable with the OSD are the lists hosted by opensource.org. This
> community will (most often politely) inform people when their ideas are
> incompatable with on
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 1:01 PM Josh Berkus wrote:
> To paraphrase the above: "It's only deplatforming if it's me or my
> friends. If it's someone I don't agree with, they're just whining."
>
Decades ago my actual friends bought me a T-Shirt
https://geekz.co.uk/shop/store/show/eler-tshirt.html
> On Feb 27, 2020, at 9:24 AM, VanL wrote:
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> The logic is that discussing naming-and-shaming as a concept is different
> than actually holding a person up for ridicule or derision.
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> We can discuss the concept without actually implementing it.
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>
There was some name and shame lang
Hi Russell,
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 9:36 AM Russell McOrmond
wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 8:21 PM VanL wrote:
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>> Further, if we really believe in the importance of ideas, and the
>> importance of speech to express those ideas, even ones we disagree with, we
>> should act in a fashion that
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 8:21 PM VanL wrote:
> Further, if we really believe in the importance of ideas, and the
> importance of speech to express those ideas, even ones we disagree with, we
> should act in a fashion that allows us the broadest exposure to those
> different ideas. Sharp language r
On 2020-02-26 17:01, Pamela Chestek wrote:
> I would like to point out that the OSI rejected the email ESR sent
> that Gil quoted (which I have removed) and it did not get published to
> the list. It would be helpful if everyone could make sure when
> replying they aren't inadvertently subverting t
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