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    This article uses bare URLs for citations. Please consider adding full citations so that the article remains verifiable. Several templates and the Reflinks tool are available to assist in formatting. (Reflinks documentation) (August 2011) Open Software License Author Lawrence Rosen Version 3.0 Publisher 2005, Lawrence Rosen FSF approved Yes OSI approved Yes GPL compatible No Copyleft Yes The Open Software License (OSL)[1] is a software license created by Lawrence Rosen. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has certified it as an open-source license, but the Debian project judged version 1.1[2][3] to be incompatible with the DFSG. The OSL is a copyleft license, with a termination clause triggered by filing a lawsuit alleging patent infringement. Many people in the free software / open-source community feel that software patents are harmful to software, and are particularly harmful to open-source software.[4] The OSL attempts to counteract that by creating a pool of... (see more)

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