Russell Nelson scripsit: > It's actually a fairly interesting license. It's very like the > modified BSD license in that you can do anything you want including > relicense. Where it gets interesting is that if you publish changes > and DON'T require a written license for your derivative work, you are > granting a license back to the original licensor. This is a neat > variant on the original APSL's intent of "If you deploy, you must > publish and tell us." It says "If you publish without instructions to > the contrary, we get a license." I think the FSF will consider this a > free software license as well.
At first I was not sure if this license infringed OSD #5, but I conclude that it does not; it privileges certain people over others (it is FSF-unfair), but it does not actually disadvantage anyone. I believe it is also FSF-free. Thumbs up. -- All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part John Cowan that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part www.ccil.org/~cowan that cooks with olive oil, and the part that www.reutershealth.com cooks with butter. -- David Chessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3