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<div class="">On Dec 8, 2020, at 10:52 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <<a href="mailto:bkuhn@sfconservancy.org" class="">bkuhn@sfconservancy.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">To be frank about how OSI-approved wound up in there, I just figured that<br class="">
list would be the least controversial.<br class="">
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I briefly considered that perhaps copyleft-only made sense, which I'd be<br class="">
glad to discuss. The issue with non-copyleft works is that they could be<br class="">
incorporated legitimately into proprietary products, which might compete<br class="">
with the proprietary products of the company sending the takedown notice.<br class="">
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I actually think that focusing on copyleft licenses would in some ways be easier</div>
<div>for many companies to wrap their minds around. It would make this pledge</div>
<div>narrower which may not your intention, but I think it would be consistent with</div>
<div>the underlying idea.</div>
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Heiki Lõhmus wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Developers less versed in copyright questions or simply deeply opposed to<br class="">
copyright expansionism may also distribute Free Software with an informal<br class="">
statement along the lines of "all rights disclaimed" or "released into<br class="">
the public domain".<br class="">
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I do think we could and should limit to software licensed under a standard<br class="">
FOSS license "somehow".<br class="">
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I agree with that. The broader the pledge becomes, the harder it will get to get</div>
<div>broad support.</div>
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<div>/D</div>
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