Reading the Open MDW License

The Linux Foundation The OSI License Concept Model Legality Change It As You Wish Normal Stuff Wait, What Retaliation More Boilerplate Free As in Mattress Motivation Returning to Legality Last Boilerplate Compatibility Conclusions I have started looking at the Linux Foundation’s Open MDW License v1.1, which they describe as “permissive license crafted for machine-learning models.” They have requested for the OSI to review it for blessing as an official open source license. And…I have concerns. You don’t need to read the license now, if you don’t want. I’ll include the entire text in this post to comment on it piece-by-piece. It might interest someone to know that I posted a shorter and differently organized version of this assessment to the mailing list Saturday morning1, after a botched attempt on Friday evening. You could consider this post an “open letter” version, but I did communicate my concerns to the OSI community. And if you have something to say, then you can certainly sign…