OSI Co-Founder Has Plan B, Seeing That OSI is Basically Defunct (Nowadays a Propaganda Arm of Microsoft et al)
From the news (only hours ago):
Bruce Perens, one of the founders of the Open Source movement, is ready for what comes next: the Post-Open Source movement."I've written papers about it, and I've tried to put together a prototype license," Perens explains in an interview with The Register. "Obviously, I need help from a lawyer. And then the next step is to go for grant money."
Perens says there are several pressing problems that the open source community needs to address.
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Whether it can or not, Perens argues that the GPL isn't enough. "The GPL is designed not as a contract but as a license. What Richard Stallman was thinking was he didn't want to take away anyone's rights. He only wanted to grant rights. So it's not a contract. It's a license. Well, we can't do that anymore. We need enforceable contract terms."
Asked whether the adoption of non-Open Source licenses, by the likes of HashiCorp, Elastic, Neo4j, and MongoDB, represent a viable way forward, Perens says new thinking is needed.
He's not a fan of licenses like the Commons Clause, which is at the center of a legal battle involving Neo4j.
As a quick reminder, Perens is a friend of Richard Stallman (it is mutual, still) and he openly opposed how the OSI had been weaponised against Free software and the FSF. Of course Perens was attacked (efforts to 'cancel') by the very same people who nowadays libel Dr. Stallman, Prof. Eben Moglen, Alex Oliva, Linus Torvalds and so on.