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OSI Turns Down 4 Licenses; Approves Python Foundation's

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keeping-the-updates-going dept.

Russ Nelson writes "The Open Source Initiative turned down four licenses this week. Not to name names, but one license had a restrictive patent grant that only applied to GPL'ed operating systems. Another was more of a rant than a license. Another was derived from the GPL in violation of the GPL's copyright. And the fourth had insufficient review on the license-discuss mailing list (archives). The one license that did pass was the Python Software Foundation License."

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  1. Hypocrisy by 91degrees · · Score: 1, Troll

    The GPL allows people to modify code as long as the release the source. It exists entirely to allow this. Why not apply the same rules to the GPL? Having a reasonably complete licence is useful for designing one's own. If it is a good licence, thenb the fork will survive. If it isn't then it will die out.

    It's not like we're going to make RMS starve if we copy it. He doesn't make his living selling copies does he?

  2. Wait a minute! by ajuda · · Score: 0, Troll

    Another was derived from the GPL in violation of the GPL's copyright.

    The GPL license is not itself GPLed?!? If much GPLed software includes the GPL copyright, are they in violation? I thought the whole point of the GPL was (to borrow a quote from the borg) "embrace and extend" what was already created.