Open Source Definition Interpretation

//**IN-PROGRESS**//

This page is currently a skeleton, a collection of links to discussions on mailing lists, asking questions or making relevant points. The purpose of collecting these links is to eventually mine these discussions for further improvements of the FAQ, OSD annotated page, and a license documenter and/or a license chooser.

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Please don't consider any of this section an actual classification (it's not), but sample links collected and put in a form. An empirical approach to the material in the mailing archives to extract content.

= OSD Resources =

//(Discussions on OSD criteria. Potentially useful for the FAQ, OSD annotated page, OSD interpretation now or in the future.)//

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===== Commercial users. =====

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* Question on commercial users not being required a fee for the package. [[The OSD and commercial use>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/784]]

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* Question on a non-commercial license. [[License idea>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/1508]]

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* Questioning business and open source - [["Article" posted on the mailing list>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/1107/focus=1142]]

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* Commercial use restrictions - [[Licensing question>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/10989]] [for proprietary distribution]

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* [[MS continued attack on OSD #6>>url:http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:15676:200803:lbeblmlakcmeoolblhdj]]

===== OSD #1 =====

“The license must permit all licensees to make copies of the software without payment of additional royalties to the licensor. The license cannot restrict licensees from either selling or giving away those copies.”

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[[Article 1 (Free Distribution)>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/904]].

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Comment: the rewording changes (restricts) the meaning. Artistic license would fail.

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===== Ultra-permissive license =====

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* [[Near Public Domain license>>url:http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:13077:200707:anoghgcaokhdldofiadj]]

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* [[OSI approved license without original license and reproduction of notices required in redistributions?>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/12318]]

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* [[Towards an OSI-approved "waive all rights" software license>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/11450]]

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===== Public domain =====

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* [[Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/11738]]

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* [[Please add "Public Domain" to "license" list>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/1147/focus=1222]]

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* [[Can abandonment be irrevocable?>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/1558]]

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* [[Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/12356]]

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* [[Discussion>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/11976]] on Golan v. Holder case.

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* [[Why?>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/2012]]. Concerns public domain and warranties.

===== OSD #2 =====

* [[Software vs licenses/rights>>url:http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:13163:200708:mgnikpjckbcmojonnjcc]]

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* [[Apache 2 License vs OSI definition>>url:http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:16315:200907:gieiecblfjiniffagkoo]]

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* [[Source distribution>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/372]]

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===== OSD #5, #6 =====

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* [[OSD#5 needs a patch?>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/1792]]

===== OSD #6 =====

* [[Open source vs. "available source" for non-commercial use>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/11643]]

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* [[are usage restrictions covered by the OSD?>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/1846]]

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* [[Microsoft's continued misconception on OSD #6>>url:http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:15738:200803:fcelbcbagfcfgbnicdkp]]

===== OSD #1 =====

* [[Why "open-source" means "free to distribute"?>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/2573]]

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===== OSD proposed amendment on patents =====

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* [[Proposed new OSD item - patent termination>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/4460]]

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* [[Discussion>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/11122]] on Google patent license to VP8. [[WebM license resolution>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/11145]]. WebM [[license>>url:http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=webm/libvpx.git;a=commitdiff;h=09202d80716ef7e2931de60c66b6fb2383f52613;hp=7f9db419798632a77b7ba10fab4dfc0631f3211a]].

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* [[Open Source Definition : can it be made explicit about non-copyright issues?>>url:http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06935.html]]

===== OSD #3 =====

* Broad copyright license to initial licensor vs OSD #3 “allow the same license”. Dual licensing. [[OVPL and open ownership>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/4934]]

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===== [Question] OSD #5 =====

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Status of Open Source software distributed within classified networks. Copyleft as special case. ([[Question on OSD #5>>url:http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:14861:200711:okfedocjigcdadfplcdo]])

===== OSD #9 =====

* [[Proposal for change to OSD #9>>url:http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:13663:200708:eoeipgbpmljbggpcbkhm]]

===== OSD #4 =====

* [[Question>>url:http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:16302:200905:kofeckepholeijpldnig]] on OSD #4

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===== OSD #10 vs badgeware clauses =====

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* [[Ethical restriction>>url:http://osdir.com/ml/licenses.open-source.general/2007-02/msg00000.html]].

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* [[Impairment of commercial reuse>>url:http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:12488:200702:mbniehgcoiikfjkpkfkm]].

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* OSD #10 was added [[after approval>>url:http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:12135:200701:dlaoeafkbfdnkpjnojmk]] of AAL.

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* [[License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/12543]]

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===== Pre-OSD #10 =====

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* [[Proposal>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/137]] for the 10th criterion in OSD.

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===== No restrictions on use =====

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* [[A proposed change to the OSD>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/460]]

===== Patents =====

* CC0 discussions, [[January>>url:http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-January/thread.html]], [[February>>url:http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-February/thread.html]], [[March>>url:http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-March/thread.html]] 2012. Withholds patents explicitly, and the intent seems to have been to allow patented scientific content to use CC0.

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* [[Questions>>url:http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:15739:200803:cdomcnijkihmpemkicef]] about patents and open source licenses.

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= Attributes of OSI Approved licenses =

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//(For a license chooser(s) specification, or content pages, i.e. FAQ)//

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===== No-Warranty provision =====

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[[Sample question>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/11318]].

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===== Author attribution or copyright notices =====

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(Note: multiple threads make a difference between authorship and copyright in EU and US laws, on moral rights treatment in EU laws, respectively droit d'auteur.)

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===== Irrevocability =====

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Irrevocable at the widest extent of the law. [[Sample discussion>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/11520]].

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===== Other attributes =====

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* [[List of objective criteria for license evaluation>>url:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/12481/focus=12536]].