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Here's a piece of mine outlining how incomplete the Open Source Definition remains for discussing how far open source copyleft can go: https://writing.kemitche
by kemitchell 8y ago
Here's a piece of mine outlining how incomplete the Open Source Definition remains for discussing how far open source copyleft can go:
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/05/OSD-Copyleft-Regulation.html https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/05/OSD-Copyleft-Regul...
Summary:
> [The fact that OSD doesn't set out complete rules for copyleft] is altogether understandable, considering the way it was written, and why. The Definition wasn’t meant to answer current questions about the limits of open source copyleft design. Those questions hadn’t even been practically posed yet. But we’re asking them now. In order to establish meaningful regulation for open source copyleft, we’ll have to look beyond the Definition. That will be far easier to do without pretending that we’re still debating the Definition.