over the interpretation
of clause G. I would not decertify it.
I hope this illustrates a more general distinction that is helpful.
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m not fooled. You are mounting an ideological attack on our core
principles of liberty and nondiscrimination. You will not succeed
while I retain any ability to oppose this.
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hip rights.
That is not what is is going on with things like the PNG - while they intend to
produce
exclusion, the attempt dies not proceed from an ownership claim.
I think we beed a better tern for this, rather than stretching "proprietary"
out of shape.
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e you create a precedent that will
reach to yourself.
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we should stay the hell away from all such
controversies. They can do nothing but harm us.
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set of liberties, not to fix society.
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of anything we can do to cooperate wuth
them, build on their work, or help them use ours.
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erence Library License. A perfectly sound and
conformant license that I wouldn't dream of decertifying, but we'd
all be better off if nobody ever used it again, adopting instead some
common license wuth a better-developed interpretive tradition.
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e this one. We want to recognize them, but we don't want to make the
license-proliferation problem worse.
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That is elegantly put, and I fully concur.
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a result of usage from ancient time.
I am prepared to argue that we also own the use of "open source" as
a description of software - that the very few prior sporadic uses
neither establish any other certification authority nor challenge
ours. But that is a separate issue.
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wn those rules when we realize what
thet are and how they apply to a particular case. Such opinions
would relate to the OSD exactly as case law does to statute.
Wherther we want to have stare decisis or not should be regarded
as a tuning knob on the machine. Comm
owed-by-committee-review process as
> approval. The decision to involuntarily deprecate a license would then
> finally be reviewed by the Board.
+1. That seems eminently sensible to me.
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> But there are two recent developments I find concerning that have
> convinced me I need to weigh in. Please pay careful attention, as I am
> not making this choice likely.
Ooops. Not making this choice *lightly*.
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ell
with you *and* the horse you rode in on."
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As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest,
law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself
worthy of trust. Laws di
g the certitification of any
specific license. I am making a meta-level point, about principles.)
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The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
-- George Washington & John Adams, in a diplomatic me
without adding to it.
But there are two recent developments I find concerning that have
convinced me I need to weigh in. Please pay careful attention, as I am
not making this choice likely.
I will start individual threads for both issues.
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