On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 21:29 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Is it necessary that an open source license must allow porting to > proprietary systems? I don't think so today. But based on what I > found out about the OpenMotif license, people actually thought that > back then. This surprises me. Has this changed? IMO it is a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the OSD. For instance, that license forbade us from even using, much less distributing, OpenMotif on Cygwin (which, as a *NIX/X11 platform, wouldn't require much actual porting) -- which, while itself Free Software, was built on a proprietary kernel (Windows), which this license explicitly called out as the definition of the OS. The same would apply to proprietary *NIXs, leaving the far-from-perfect lesstif as the only viable option for us and them. Shouldn't this have been considered a restriction against persons/groups (users of such systems) or fields of endeavour (use on such systems)? -- Yaakov Selkowitz Senior Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
