McCoy Smith wrote on 25/8/20 15:41:
Interestingly enough, the original submission of the Vaccine License to the
OSI had what appears to be a phony SPDX designation, "SPDX: Vaccine-1.0 "
included in the submitted license text.
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Andrew DeMarsh wrote on 25/8/20 13:51:
There are plenty of legal professionals on this list that can most
likely write a far better rule/requirment, I personally would not throw
in the X projects requirement as I think that changes the rules
significantly from what they are today and would requ
There are plenty of legal professionals on this list that can most likely
write a far better rule/requirment, I personally would not throw in the X
projects requirement as I think that changes the rules significantly from
what they are today and would require a lot more input/consideration then
sim
>
> Quite a few people view such a requirement in a software license as
> DFSG-noncompliant. I think it would be a bit odd if OSI adopted such
> a requirement within its contribution process.
>
I'm not sure that it would be required in the license text itself possibly
only interacting with the ma
On 2020/08/25 17:04, Andrew DeMarsh wrote:
> I would at least like to suggest that at minimum wording be added to the
> requirements for L-R such that the license submission must be made with the
> express purpose of a License be considered for actual real world use and
> that the request be made w
* McCoy Smith:
> Might it be time to require license submitters to actually identify
> themselves, the organization they represent, and the name of the legal
> person they worked with in creating and submitting the license?
Quite a few people view such a requirement in a software license as
DFSG-
Sorry yes, that's exactly what I mean. Sorry for any confusion.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 2:30 PM David Woolley
wrote:
> On 25/08/2020 18:04, Andrew DeMarsh wrote:
> > OSI be careful when trying to qualify what counts as a legal person
>
> I think you meant something like "legal expert", as "legal
To be clear if this was addressed squarely to me (sorry if not, contest is
harder to read via text), it is not that I don't care about the points you
have addressed; it is simply that I think a focus on the exploited weakness
in L-R is more productive, it is easier and less work to ensure that it i
I think that that's a very good idea, the only question I would have is how
we vet "real" people, or if this would be a policy only to ignore/reject
obvious pseudonyms/fake names etc.
I only ask as I can see new submission names being anything from "Devin
Nullquest" to "John Smith" and legal revie
On 25/08/2020 18:04, Andrew DeMarsh wrote:
OSI be careful when trying to qualify what counts as a legal person
I think you meant something like "legal expert", as "legal person"
doesn't make sense in the English legal sense of the terms (an extension
of the the concept of a natural person (an
My point was not that there must be some credential hurdle one must meet in
order to be satisfy the “legal review” test, but that you not be able to say –
as the Vaccine License submission did – “The license was prepared by a
licensing professional. In the client's best interest, the legal revie
Even if you don’t care about Bruce Perens’s mockery of attempts by
practitioners to address the ethical shortcomings of traditional FLOSS, you
should care about his abuse of the time and effort of volunteers on this list
who took his “joke” seriously.
Ban him.
> On Aug 25, 2020, at 12:04 PM,
I would at least like to suggest that at minimum wording be added to the
requirements for L-R such that the license submission must be made with the
express purpose of a License be considered for actual real world use and
that the request be made with a professional intent for a usable OSI
License
In view of the fact that the OSI is going to be forming a committee to
review the process:
https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Working+Groups+%26+Incubator+Projects/Licens
e+List+Working+Group/, here's one thing to consider:
In late 2019, a submission was made to approve the "Vaccine License":
http
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