I finally looked at the license. As far as I can tell, it was pretty generic. The only unusual claim I could find was:
http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/license.html
4....
However, if you publish or distribute your modifications, enhancements or derivative works without contemporaneously requiring users to enter into a separate written license agreement, then you are deemed to have granted participants in the EU DataGrid a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to install, use, reproduce, display, modify, redistribute and sub-license your modifications, enhancements or derivative works, whether in binary or source code form, under the license conditions stated in this list of conditions.
I have no idea if this is legally coherent, but I don't see anything here that would create an OSD conflict, since other OSI licenses seem to automatically require similar things, just without the "separate written license agreement" escape clause.
-- Ernie P.
On Sep 26, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Russell Nelson wrote:
This license has been sitting around for over a month, and nobody has said anything. Maybe it's because it's obviously open source, but as committee members, I'd like to hear it explicitly from your mouths (or keyboards rather) to report back to the board.
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.
Anyway, could I hear some discussion of it?
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