Fred Trotter wrote: > First, I would like for the OSI and FSF people on this list to consider > some kind of new status for a license, like "OSI tolerated" > or "OSI Not Open Source But It Doesn't Suck" , or > "Not Free Software but tolerated for this purpose" or something like.
Hi Fred, I actually like the Ghostscript/Aladdin license, which was essentially GPL-after-one-year. I was their attorney at the time and I fully supported their business and licensing model. (For what it is worth, so did my client's friend, Richard Stallman, who apparently considered this a reasonable way then to end up with GPL software.) That said, you should note that the Ghostscript commercial licensor no longer uses the "time-delayed open source" model. You should perhaps talk directly to the folks at Artifex to understand their experience with it. In any event, you are free to use this model if you want to! Your suggestion for a special OSI/FSF license category suffers from another problem: Several of the licenses on the current OSI list (including some licenses recommended by automated license recommendation tools touted around here) already are "Open Source But They Suck Anyway." OSI and FSF both have proven to be sometimes bad judges of license suckiness. Such categories won't help much, given the wide differences of opinions and "business" models around here. /Larry Lawrence Rosen Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com) 3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482 Office: 707-485-1242 Linkedin profile: http://linkd.in/XXpHyu -----Original Message----- From: fred trotter [mailto:fred.trot...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 2:12 AM To: license-discuss@opensource.org; Michael Widenius; ka...@gnome.org; mark.atw...@hp.com; Eben Moglen; r...@gnu.org Cc: nat...@gonzalezmosier.com; Roberto C. Rondero de Mosier Subject: [License-discuss] Open Source Eventually License Development <snip> _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss