asterisk users - Jun 2005 - Re: New JAVA application server for Asterisk - OrderlyCalls

Hello Adam, Matt King <m@orderlysoftware.com> writes:
>> I am familiar with the OSI definitiion.  I've read it again, but I
>> can't work out exactly how asking for permission contravenes this
>> definition.
>  
>
Then Adam wrote:
> "6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
>
> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program
> in a specific field of endeavor.  For example, it may not restrict
> the program from being used in a business..."
>
>  http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
>
>  - a
Well the full text of section 6 reads as follows: 

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6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a 
specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program 
from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license 
traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want 
commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.

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I believe that 'field of endeavour' means quite a broad spectrum of
activity, such as 'business' or 'genetic research'.  It's
certainly *not* our intent to discriminate in this way, and I don't think
the very specific usage requirements in the licence file could be taken to mean
that we're discriminating against any particular field of endeavour.

We're certainly *not* intending to prohibit commercial use of OrderlyCalls -
indeed we have chosen the LGPL specifically to *encourage* commercial use.

We are open to suggestion on this issue, so if you've got a way forward
I'd love to hear about it, but in the meantime I'd like to repeat my
request to move this discussion off the Asterisk lists and onto a more
appropriate forum (such as orderlycalls-general@lists.sourceforge.net), as I
feel like we're bugging the readers here with unnecessary detail.  This will
therefore be my last post to the Asterisk lists on this issue until a way
forward has been agreed.

Respectfully yours,

Matt King, M.A. Oxon.
Managing Director, Orderly Software Ltd.

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 18:16, Matt King wrote:
> We are open to suggestion on this issue, so if you've got a way forward
I'd
> love to hear about it, but in the meantime I'd like to repeat my
request to
How about not crossposting this?  It really does not belong in -dev.  (Nor 
really -users, but I had to suggest one of 'em.  :-)

-A.