Hi everyone, Here is a link to the RealNetworks Public Source License (RPSL):
http://www.helixcommunity.org/content/rpsl We'd like to submit this for consideration as an OSI-certified license. As discussed in the August 1 thread, our intent is to create a license that is similar in goals to the GPL, with the following key differences: * Closing the "ASP loophole". We want to ensure that someone who sets up a business as an ASP is subject to the same community obligations as someone who creates a shrinkwrap product. See http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/01/1636202 for more details on this. * Clear language with respect to the scope of patent rights RealNetworks grants to the community. We are offering a patent license to the code we issue. * Right for RealNetworks to relicense. The subgoals for this are as follows: * We want to ensure we can bring changes back into our main development trunk, which is dually licensed under the RPSL and the RealNetworks Community Source License (a community source license modelled after the Java Community Source License) * We want to be able to relicense this under other terms later (perhaps GPL compatibility will become feasible) * We offer licensing under other terms under custom agreement * Compability with most currently-approved OSI licenses (exceptions being licenses that would read on our RPSL'd code) Let us know what you think, and what we can do to ease the process along. Thanks Rob -- Rob Lanphier, Helix Community Coordinator - RealNetworks http://helixcommunity.org http://rtsp.org http://realnetworks.com -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
