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Email I just sent the OSI: Please see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692552 It turns out companies

Email I just sent the OSI: Please see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692552 It turns out companies are now "bastardizing" the license terms. I would love for the OSI to re-evaluate if these licences are truly open source. Open source covers freedom, and I should think that these clauses abridge that freedom since it is very well possible for a company to be required to sue Apple or Facebook over patents. If that unrelated lawsuit "strips" your legal right to use software, that is NOT freedom. Thanks

matt4077 10y ago
The OSI are opposed to software patents anyway, so I doubt that they have a problem with them becoming worthless. "Freedom" is an empty slogan in this regard. Copyleft licenses have long restricted your freedom, the idea being that there are colliding "freedoms" under some circumstances and it's for the greater good of society to restrict some peoples "freedom" (those creating derivative works) for the benefit of of the end-user.
tracker1 10y ago
It's not significantly different than the Apache or MSPL licenses in this regard.