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.
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.
- Question on commercial users not being required a fee for the package. The OSD and commercial use
- Question on a non-commercial license. License idea
- Questioning business and open source - "Article" posted on the mailing list
- Commercial use restrictions - Licensing question [for proprietary distribution]
- MS continued attack on OSD #6
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
- Near Public Domain license
- OSI approved license without original license and reproduction of notices required in redistributions?
- Towards an OSI-approved "waive all rights" software license
Public domain
- Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?
- Please add "Public Domain" to "license" list
- Can abandonment be irrevocable?
- Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?
- Discussion on Golan v. Holder case.
- Why?. Concerns public domain and warranties.
OSD #2
OSD #5, #6
OSD #6
- Open source vs. "available source" for non-commercial use
- are usage restrictions covered by the OSD?
- Microsoft's continued misconception on OSD #6
OSD #1
OSD proposed amendment on patents
- Proposed new OSD item - patent termination
- Discussion on Google patent license to VP8. WebM license resolution. WebM license.
- Open Source Definition : can it be made explicit about non-copyright issues?
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
- Question on OSD #4
OSD #10 vs badgeware clauses
- Ethical restriction.
- Impairment of commercial reuse.
- OSD #10 was added after approval of AAL.
- License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)
Pre-OSD #10
- Proposal for the 10th criterion in OSD.
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
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
- List of objective criteria for license evaluation.
- Permissive licenses. List of potential attributes.