“No” to special exceptions. Enthusiastic “
YES ” to relicensing.
I support foss; freedom to run, freedom to study the source, freedom to share, freedom to modify and distribute. This is what makes the open source community great. So many things are benefiting from the open source licenses that exist: MIT, Apache 2, and GPL. All my work currently has been built on the contributions of the global coding community and oss.
Bosl was intended to defend from underfunding and takeover. These seem like they are not the intent of this ask. It is incredibly unlikely that Monero community would use orchid to take over zcash market.
My second dislike of BOSL is that it is a non-standard license which makes use for enterprise client a long conversation around licensing and legal vs privacy and technology.
Switching from BOSL to something more permissive is a great move! Not for the sake of Monero. For the sake of the world.