On Monday 11 March 2002 10:38 am, Colin Percival wrote: > [ Please discuss this license. Is he reinventing the LGPL? ] > > I submit for your consideration the "BSD Protection License", as found > at http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/colin.percival/source/BSDPL.html > (A plaintext version can be found by s/html/txt/ on the URL.) > > Feel free to redistribute this as relevant (eg to license-discuss); I > have no desire to remain anonymous (and the URL would identify me anyway). > > The included preamble should clarify the purpose of this license, but to > summarize briefly, this license has a GPL flavour and a BSD spirit, and > exists in order to allow closed source use of licensed code, while > "protecting" the code from having that freedom removed.
The juxtoposition of sections 3 and 4 is somewhat interesting. It's like a dual license, with the recipient choosing the set of terms they wish. But I would make sure that this point is clarified. This license can easily, even commonly, be interpreted as null and void since section 3 and 4 contradict each other, with no explicit explanation that one chooses one section or another. It's not a reinvention of the LGPL. It achieves many of the same goals, but does so through a completely different mechanism. I would, however, change the name. It would be all too easy to confuse the name with another well known license. It also detours considerably from the BSD spirit. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org pgp public key on website -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3