Open Source Definition Interpretation

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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.

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.)

Commercial users.
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.”

Article 1 (Free Distribution).

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

Ultra-permissive license
Public domain
OSD #2
OSD #5, #6
OSD #6
OSD #1
OSD proposed amendment on patents
OSD #3
  • Broad copyright license to initial licensor vs OSD #3 “allow the same license”. Dual licensing. OVPL and open ownership
[Question] OSD #5

Status of Open Source software distributed within classified networks. Copyleft as special case. (Question on OSD #5)

OSD #9
OSD #4
OSD #10 vs badgeware clauses
Pre-OSD #10
No restrictions on use
Patents
  • CC0 discussions, January, February, March 2012. Withholds patents explicitly, and the intent seems to have been to allow patented scientific content to use CC0.
  • Questions about patents and open source licenses.

Attributes of OSI Approved licenses

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

No-Warranty provision

Sample question.

Author attribution or copyright notices

(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.)

Irrevocability

Irrevocable at the widest extent of the law. Sample discussion.

Other attributes
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