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<blockquote data-quote="robconley" data-source="post: 8889592" data-attributes="member: 5636">The Open Source world long been divided into camps about how far to go. EFF is firmly in &quot;all thing should be open&quot; camp. By their reasoning that mean Linus Torvalds could withdraw authorization for his license grants for Linux because it uses GPL v2 which doesn't have irrevocable in it as well. Irrevocable only became a consideration in the wave of revisions (GPL v3, CC, etc) that came in the late 2000s, and 2010s. Well beyond when the OGL was created.In an ideal world, there would be an OGL 1.0b update that updated the language slightly to make it irrevocable. But to be critical of a license that predated that understanding is disingenuous and to me feels like throwing the OGL community under the bus.Which I would really like those who are lawyers to start citing key cases so we can read the nuances for ourselves. The details matter. Especially if it something that happened AFTER the OGL was created.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="robconley, post: 8889592, member: 5636"] The Open Source world long been divided into camps about how far to go. EFF is firmly in "all thing should be open" camp. By their reasoning that mean Linus Torvalds could withdraw authorization for his license grants for Linux because it uses GPL v2 which doesn't have irrevocable in it as well. Irrevocable only became a consideration in the wave of revisions (GPL v3, CC, etc) that came in the late 2000s, and 2010s. Well beyond when the OGL was created. In an ideal world, there would be an OGL 1.0b update that updated the language slightly to make it irrevocable. But to be critical of a license that predated that understanding is disingenuous and to me feels like throwing the OGL community under the bus. Which I would really like those who are lawyers to start citing key cases so we can read the nuances for ourselves. The details matter. Especially if it something that happened AFTER the OGL was created. [/QUOTE]

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