Re: Request Discussion Pre-Reviews For New Licenses (chewkeanho-rlos, chewkeanho-cos, chewkeanho-gpos)

On 10/1/2024 11:47 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 9/29/24 23:58, (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho via License-discuss wrote:
>> The main goal is to create a new set of license frameworks which does 
>> not require issuing multiple outbound licenses (e.g. Apache 2.0 for 
>> software, CC-BY-ND for images, CC-BY-SA for video, ...) for a single 
>> project repository and picked up the latest updates in the market 
>> implementations.
>
> Can you explain this goal in more detail?  I think this is the 
> interesting part to discuss.
>
> > Wait,  you mean rlos will not be approved mainly due to reason (1)
> > 
> fromhttps://opensource.org/licenses/common-reasons-for-rejection-of-licenses,
> > right? I drafted this based on BSD-3-Clear and BSD-2-Patent licenses.
>
> The BSD-2-Patent license specificially *grants* limited patent rights. 
> Your license specifically *denies them*, so I don't understand how 
> it's "based on" the approved license.
>
>
>
To add to this, IIRC the BSD-Clear license is not an OSI-approved 
license specifically because it is meant to withhold patent rights.

Pam

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