OSI finds that lack of respect for freedom, Bruce Perens, co-founder resigned.
Last year, attorney Van Lindberg representatives distributed development platform HoloChain drafted a "named password autonomy License (CAL)" software licenses, and submit it to the Open Source Initiative OSI approval.
Meet the OSI open source definition license was identified as open source licenses, such as the more popular MIT, Apache-2.0 and BSD 3-Clause are all in the list of OSI certified open source license.
But on whether to approve the CAL license caused a debate within the OSI, local time on January 2, in the course of the discussion draft version 4 of the CAL approval, OSI co-founder Bruce Perens proposed resignation . He believes that the organization is moving in the direction of respect for freedom not to accept the license move, which makes it had to withdraw. The original Open Source Definition (the OSD, the Open Source Definition) It was drafted by the Bruce Perens.
Well, it seems to me that the organization is rather enthusiastically
headed toward accepting a license that isn't freedom respecting. Fine, do
it without me, please. I asked Patrick to cancel my membership, and I would
have unsubscribed from OSI lists, including this one, if your server was
working. I own an interest in 10 Open Source companies and manage a 50
Million dollar portfolio investing in them. That will keep me involved
enough.It seems organizations are enthusiastically accept the lack of respect towards freedom of agreement. Well, please do not leave me with water.
I asked Patrick to cancel my membership, I will unsubscribe OSI mailing list (including this message).
I have 10 open source companies are interested in, and manages a portfolio of $ 50 million, so that I can be more involved.
Bruce Perens In an interview with The Register in a telephone interview said, OSI has been in existence for 21 years, currently approved in more than 100 open-source software license, he thought first of all to the community so much license is harmful, because the software with multiple license when using the card combination will bring legal burden. " We wrong in licensing the road", he believed that only AGPLv3, LGPLv3 and three Apache v2 is required.
Bruce added : "Most people can not open source software development conditional lawyer's goal is to open one you do not need to hire a lawyer can use it, you can install open source software and run it on your computer, if you do not redistribute. or modify the software, you do not actually need to read the license. "
However, CAL will break this pattern, "If you are running under the CAL and you have the user is required in some cases, the user's data will be returned to them (HoloChain)."
CAL made last year proposed a distributed development platform HoloChain, HoloChain is a for point to point applications based application framework hash chain, which is essentially a platform that allows developers to create a password-protected distributed applications.
CAL is a new open license, its introduction is: not only can protect the application developer and source code user, you can also protect end users' privacy and control of identity and data.
But for people such as Bruce, HoloChain hope CAL network by monitoring the user's application, and they do not want those users to create a platform for distributed client isolation of user data, so they can lock the user. For example, in the definition of CAL , the "purpose" in wrote:
This License also strives to protect the freedom and autonomy of third parties who receive the Work from you. If any non-affiliated third party receives any part, aspect, or element of the Work from You, this License requires that You provide that third party all the permissions and materials needed to independently use and modify the Work without that third party having a loss of data or capability due to your actions.
At the same time this corresponding provisions:
4.2.1. No Withholding User Data
Throughout any period in which You exercise any of the permissions granted to You under this License, You must also provide to any Recipient to whom you provide services via the Work, a no-charge copy, provided in a commonly used electronic form, of the Recipient’s User Data in your possession, to the extent that such User Data is available to You for use in conjunction with the Work.
Probably means that when using CAL, you need to provide all the rights and materials used independently and required modifications to the downstream projects, including the use of a user you need to provide your services data you have.
At the same time, another open source familiar told The Register for the person responsible for approving the CAL community debate, he said that the drafting of CAL's lawyer Van lobbied OSI directors approved a private CAL, which is a violation of the rules of procedure should be approved in a public place. But the lawyer has explained that it was perfectly reasonable procedural communication, and a lot of people on CAL prejudiced from the start, and then against it.
Bruce Perens feel OSI seems to have decided to accept the license, and he proposed to resign.