On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 7:15 AM Russell McOrmond <russellmcorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> a) whether these restrictions of private activities should be considered > consistent with the OSD. > The OSD rules don't protect your private activities from the terms of Open Source licenses. > b) whether, separately from the OSI or other entities with charitable > status, the community should be supporting enhancements to the law to > remove the ability of software proprietors to have that level of control > over private activities (lobbying lawmakers, amicus curiae briefs to > courts, etc). > OSI has so far taken a very weak stance on software patenting in general, a stance I do not personally approve of. We're clear that patent royalties or restrictive patent licenses and Open Source aren't compatible. But you would have to find another organization to go farther than that on the software patent issue. While we can't participate in political campaigns, a 501(c)3 can lobby if the resources used are "insubstantial". To do more than that, we'd have to create a separate foundation.
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