January 2020 License-Discuss Summary
License-Discuss mailing list topics for January 2020:
- Dual Licensing
- Copyright on APIs
- Decision process regarding license review submissions
- AGPL evaluation and real-world license testing
- ZFS Kernel Code on Linux
Dual Licensing
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021191.html
Centralizing copyright licensing and not centralizing copyrights themselves
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021192.html
Single entity open source business model
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021204.html
Copyright on APIs
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021193.html
Doubt on article assumptions due to machine-readable interface description in the source code
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021194.html
Decision process regarding license review submissions
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021195.html
Suggestion to postpone OSI evaluation of new licenses until after some time of practical use
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021199.html
The role of the OSI and defining norms
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021201.html
Writing down all rules would be divisive and further enable bad actors
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021207.html
Postponing evaluation means ignoring and that the current OSI certification process is fine and shouldn’t be changed because of one license being reviewed. Introduce retiring licenses or have a category of “open source but not recommended.”
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021203.html
It is undesirable to have the OSI determine which licenses are better than others
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021208.html
Concern with interim naming of a license while it is in use but before OSI evaluation
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021212.html
AGPL evaluation and real-world license testing
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021197.html
Copyleft-next is engaging in a public drafting process
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021198.html
ZFS Kernel Code on Linux
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-January/021215.html