From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 00:25:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BFF16A4CF for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:25:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.actcom.co.il (smtp2.actcom.co.il [192.114.47.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B806143D1F for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:25:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wine-devel@shemesh.biz) Received: from shemesh.biz (line102-130.adsl.actcom.co.il [192.117.102.130]) by smtp2.actcom.co.il (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0P8Pf8n027227; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:25:42 +0200 Message-ID: <40137D85.2050808@shemesh.biz> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:25:41 +0200 From: Shachar Shemesh Organization: Lingnu Open Systems Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en, he MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <20040124214735.GE548@foghorn.rsmba.biz> <40131AEA.2000804@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <40131AEA.2000804@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: wine-devel@winehq.com cc: Richard Schilling cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Trolling and helping a spammer (was Re: New Open Source License: Single Supplier Open Source License) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:25:52 -0000 Hi guys, First, someone who sends the same email to at least four mailing lists (freebsd, wine-devel, postgresql-hackers and ossi) is a spammer in my book. Replying to his email, especially to lists that are not relevant (i.e. - any but ossi) is helping him along. To answer his (asked) question - since this license is clearly LGPL incompatible, I don't think he is likely to make contributions to Wine under this license. At least, not contributions that will be accepted. As his license is also BSD incompatible, I dare say it is equally off topic for FreeBSD and postgresql. This guy is obviously trying to solve the "how can I make money from free software" dillema by introducing a proprietary license and calling it "OpenSource". Interesting idea, but it has been tried before (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx, except they didn't have the audacity to call it open source). This is just a proprietary license. Nothing more to see here. Move along. Shachar P.S. I am not subscribed to the stable@freebsd.org mailing list. A search of the archives did not show this particular Richard Schilling post. I was not sure whether to dump this mail (which is just as off topic as the original one) on that list as well. I'm sorry if I chose wrong. I did notice that on stable@freebsd, Richard is at least an occasional poster. Here on Wine-devel he is a first time poster as far as I can see. This may explain the difference in responses between the lists. Sh. Chuck Swiger wrote: > Richard Schilling wrote: > >> I would like to present to you all a new Open Source software license >> I've written up. > > [ ... ] > > One the face of it, Section III, "Distribution Restrictions and > Obligations." of your license fails to comply with OSD #1 & 2: > > "1. Free Redistribution > > The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away > the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution > containing programs from several different sources. The license shall > not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. > > 2. Source Code > > The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in > source code as well as compiled form...." > > See http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php. > -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/