>>From: License-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] >>On Behalf Of Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss >>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 10:27 PM >>To: Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss >><[email protected]> >>Cc: Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: [License-discuss] comprehensiveness (or not) of the OSI-approved >>list
>>>>On May 22, 2019, at 11:00 PM, Lawrence Rosen >>>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>And so OSI should educate you that patents are sometimes very important, >>>>and that the BSD license is currently not very useful in the open source >>>>environment. It is risky! >>Has this actually been tested and/or demonstrated yet anywhere? Surely with >>the tens of thousands of permissive-licensed codes in use in every corporate >>portfolio, one of them would have endured a >>test by now if it were risky. >>Regardless, not knowing whether something is risky doesn’t make it risky, it >>makes it an unknown risk. Baseless fear-mongering. AFAIK it has not been tested in a court, but it is being tested in academic journals and in various conferences and workshops. Here is an example of this proposition being tested in a legal academic journal: http://stlr.org/2018/10/15/the-truth-about-oss-frand-by-all-indications-compatible-models-in-standards-settings/ and here is a counter-argument: http://stlr.org/2019/03/04/oss-and-frand-complementary-models-for-innovation-and-development/
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